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  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  Happy (belated) Halloween! Although I guess it's November now but let's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... anything. It's practically a theorem. 10:28 pm: This is a waste of blog. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  . You can't appreciate it here, but the little CLIFTON guys next to the ... 're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT Integration Bee this evening. It was pretty cool, but it not rule quite as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  the National Poetry Slam! While it's generally difficult to get off campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I take every chance I can to drop by Central Square and listen to a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize ... interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it ... fourth folder: The Pinkdex is so named because it was originally

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to ... good an opportunity as any to figure out if biology is "my thing" and ... and embryonated chickens. My research is part of a project to use these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can ... So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan ... language by the time I graduate) I'm still deciding whether or not to double

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  hounded with endorsement deals (well okay maybe Snively is) but it's a pretty big deal to us. The annual blogger selection is like the Admissions ... . It's not a perfect metaphor. All MIT undergraduates are encouraged to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... MIT with just a suitcase, a duffel bag, and a backpack. To the left is a ... MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  from it to the 8.01 students. I got the original picture from the page ... video lectures, you should! It's awesome being able to actually watch the ... sequel of the Star Wars Series!!! :P" -- Aditya, India "That is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In ... for a few seconds, as if to convince me it was real, and not a spark of ... , it introduced me to astrophysics, a field I adore and that I’ve been

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... crux of my media collection. It starts off with some classic newspaper comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  're talking ages ago, so long that I almost forgot it even happened. Before we ... have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... VERY long three months. But, last night it was over, and it was time for

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  !!! So here it is, good luck to you if you're applying to college, and good ... 99.99% sure we aren't applying to any Boston residency programs. It ... for the pleasure of it. This is probably something that I shouldn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... them equally endearing, and it would It's Chandler be unfair to judge ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  ," Jones says. It is, of course, just a book, and that's a fine thing to ... to the television producer, worried that the final documentary, when it ... /she have to die?' saying, 'I don't know, I haven't read the book,' is a bad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  . It was supposed to be a nice two hour hike, and we figured that we ... -  and finally found our way to the trail head!  It was an adventure ... us was a trail filled with miles of snow. It made it a bit difficult to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014