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  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am ... address in MIT's People Directory (and in the email I just sent you). Anyway ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended ... extreme poverty a thing of the past? Why do some countries grow fast and others fall further behind? Does growth help the poor? Does foreign aid

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... years later, I started learning dances from the choreography videos of ... playlists are a tangible representation of all the dancing I've done

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... .01 (Physics Mechanics). But emails being amongst the overwhelming aspects of my ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... one of them casually remarked, "Oh, I saw Mitra the other day ... those of you who don't know, was the original admissions blogger, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on ... have strong memories of 7th-grade-Cami curling up on the couch, watching ... the crassness of his jokes, paired with his funny, charming, awkward and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  good and ALL the seasons of rick and morty. all 17 of us on the new ... happenings, but my group does really good work for the world and i want to be a ... between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  ...but I mean that in a good way. It's all in the name of education, right ... probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... ’s beauty in the slope of a curve and the grandeur of Paris. However, it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some ... As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does ... , or the *clears throat* Documents of Early England Data Set. [caption

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... of the friends I made at work were MIT alums, class of 2014 or 2015 ... time on fifth west, and am nervously anticipating the thrill of new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  blow to the wallet) of an on-campus grocery store. With La ... -campus grocery store.[annotation note="The earliest mention of LaVerde's I could ... . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... minorities and the college application process. Does that mean that you have to ... American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  the address on my company website is not the exact address of our office ... only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... them feels left out. On the flight, I read more of The Lying Life of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022