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  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  parents moved to Baltimore when I was two, which is where I grew up. But now ... it took me 2 hours to go a mile. :-) But when I finally got to Mc ... in my in-box. Hope you guys had a good weekend! It's good to be back.

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... setting is a pretty amazing thing to have once the explosion that is ... robot before, so I thought it would be a good time to start (because of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  pretty big (well, mine is at least), but still, I think it's just easier to ... through. The good news is that I'm starting to understand more and more as ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  atop the one I'm wearing to feel any warmth. It doesn't matter; I won ... there. It's dark and a little cold, although a little is gradually making ... to the left. I hug Philip. It's been forever. Like Kamoya and I, he

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it's true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is ... you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... countries, residing in 66 different nations. Needless to say, it was an ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is 21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... are grad classes, but it's perfectly fine for undergrads to take grad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  . Other than that, it was a successful trek. This is my 4th year here and ... 's officially cold out, b) it's still a tad early to frolic in the fall foliage, c ... , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  couldn't build it, but I volunteered to provide the vocals, and so ... great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned ... breakfast while rfong presents how to eat it; also, an Anastassia selfie of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese ... mouse tissue, make DNA from it (called cDNA), and then deliver the DNA to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  be admitted during regular action). It's not easy or fun for us to have to give bad news to so many students, but it's a reality that we all ... If you are applying to MIT this year (early or regular), here's an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I ... wanted to be when it came to making a college list or completing an ... . However, my goal when reading an application is never to just find a reason

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best ... with me. His daughter had been planning to attend the session, but it was ... . For formal, self-guided opportunities, the USACO is really terrific. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from ... what it means to actually learn from mistakes. Relationships, personal ... shuts down at about 5 am and yields to sleep. Not worth it (#15). Despite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the spring semester, so I decided to change it up this year. In this ... and earth science, so it was refreshing to take a break from math and CS ... , and introduce you to the industry. Sophomore year is a great time to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  (possibly caffeine-boosted) confidence resolved to finally make the call. It ... to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  -time members, admission onto the team is usually granted to only sophomores and ... welcome at all the schools we visited. It never ceases to amaze me how ... . Everybody goes through the same joys and struggles and is more than happy to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  It's been really hard to stay resilient through quarantine. I miss my ... : Gravity Falls is a story about two twins, Dipper and Mabel, who move to ... . Anyways, it's very hard for me to put into words how much this show means to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  milano), however their methodology is outdated and tiring causing it to ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... 4 years, not to mention the fact that it was unsafe in its functional

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  go through it all again! You might be wondering, what would I take as a first term freshman at MIT? What you'll generally see is something ... come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005