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  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a ... '05, who majored in Course 7: Biology and is off to Stanford in two ... to the restaurant. This is such a nice walking area, and the evening

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... I tried to fall back to sleep and hold it til morning, grappled ... shock patterns... by the time we headed back it was starting to look like

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  've learned since coming here, it's that sleep is very, very, VERY valuable to me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  adapts experience to sentience the American Midwest is infuriatingly ... and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  dream could have been realized. But alas, the show is only airing its first episode tomorrow (watch it now by clicking here). “Eight high schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  . Summer in Boston is miserable in some ways but it is beautiful. The air is ... spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it ... , but it turned out that the class was designed to teach people how to ... whatever stroke you want; all you have to do is complete the required

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your ... music study. What you do is up to you. I should also note that if your ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  it is okay to slow down. Life, college, career -- it's not a race. Feel ... deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https ... got to see it last min!! My coworker made it into album art and it gives ... this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period ... little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  see the need to sugar-coat any of this. If this is your first time to ... straightforward when it comes to privacy. But, since many of you will never be my ... you see it (unless you get accepted to MIT and we become friends). Left

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in ... and opportunities when it comes to choosing a major. ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  . That class is special in its own way just as the ones that have come ... kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  represents making it half way, as well as is one of the main symbols to signify ... freaking cool, we were able to get it rescheduled for this fall. It's been ... Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  . In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words, so I'll let ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of ... -on-top-of-the-track style in 2004. It was called "8.01: The Ride". This year's roller coaster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  . It is our loss that we will not be able to offer you admission. We hope ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and Professional Practices, May 1 is the "National Candidates Reply Date," the agreed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at ... songs exclusively about beards!" - but they didn't really seem to get it ... ). The clouds rolled in and it started to rain as our trio approached the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  arrange to take it now since there's a lifeguard free." Swim office lady ... remember that freestyle is kind of tiring and switch to breaststroke. Four ... You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack ... reverse engineering. Of course, completing the puzzle is not necessary to ... . Registration is only open until July 31st, so head over to hackmit.org now

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017