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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... intellectually -- and it is another thing to go somewhere and witness this fact living out its daily life. (Add to this the phenomenon of knowing that you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  strongly underestimated how fun it is to work hard and then have an interesting project to show for it, compared to how unfulfilling it is to work ... fundamental questions that these MITAdmissions blogs try to answer. It is also

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  blogpost I merely swallowed it down and decided never again to blog about ... life and what it's meant to him and offered to introduce me to his ... fact that it felt all so high school to me; that these were the kinds of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  , and I made our trek to Walker Memorial. It used to be a gym but now it ... nuts trying to capture photos. It's super fun, but a little difficult ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read ... out who had the means, motive, and opportunity to do it. We're given a "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  Mystery Hunt is almost here! (Bryan is pretty excited about it, too)I'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of ... their applications. I assure you, the MIT Records Office team is going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  like MIT's mission to use science and technology to improve the world is ... scrub the carpet like it has never been scrubbed before. To entertain ... Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To ... really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet music I'd tried to analyze a few years ago, and some of it makes a lot

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  aid decision will be mailed as soon as possible after it is complete ... , even if it is after the deadline ... Answers to some more of the common questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  admirably ambitious - it was a pleasure to meet you :) The RA telethon will ... have to sacrifice a couple of your weekend plans. It's entirely feasible to get all As at MIT, and I know people who have done it. Plus, there

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  to go right now. Are you coming?" "...Sure!" Far be it for me to let ... 's very easy for me to say this having already gone through it, and there ... how you're feeling right now. Senior year is hard. I know that to be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... important people, and that's what I want to write about first. It's gonna be ... . Someday I'll figure out what it's like to lay down roots. A lot of these

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... real, or simulation-to-real. After that, the next goal is to improve the ... MIT (or HowToGAMIT for short). It's a student-produced handbook that's a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  Chevron, which is announcing a $10 million commitment to the Fab Foundation ... was to canvass everything MIT does to support makers on its campus, from ... , useful, ingenious and/or interesting things. As we concluded: It is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  ; now, 9 days later, it has filtered through the rest of the Internet back to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  ), which is quite awesome. Here's what Evan saw (it looks to me like Evan is ... Here's another Orientation photo contest entry... it seems that ... just prior to an annual event we call the Sodium Drop (I'll leave the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... without a letter. The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U ... schools do not calculate GPA or class rank, it's okay for your counselor
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  something illegal, and also because it's part of the Hacker Code of Ethics to never claim responsibility for hacks. Think about it- it really adds to ... discussion on collegeconfidential. Basically the gist of it is that the admit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... is the Great Dome. Its head-on view is inspired by the original 1930s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  chemistry major, figured that if MIT is opening the doors to its classes, why ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007