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  Flowers in your hair

  

  !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... Students' Union, the MIT Caribbean Club, and the MIT chapter of the National ... train on the Green line to BU Central. The street address 775 Comm Ave

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  's good for you!) Watch absurd amounts of TV. Jomar '06 bought the first ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The ... 710 Math, does the fact that I am involved in a lot of things and other ... provide a lot more of information about myself other than what's on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  the Museum of Science for free (yay MIT ID card!) and because I figured it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and ... most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  , if you can find the addresses -- professors get tons of email, and your ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... good answer and a bad answer. A question like "What is the student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  students here. The article also addresses the different kinds of gap years ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  address these questions thoughtfully by studying the books of thinkers who ... ordering of human goods. Indeed! Another one of the many perks of my job ... Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... (a snippet of its 469 miles) we pulled over to admire the sunset. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... comedy shows. Of course, I entered the seminar lottery, and there were ... worth brownie points with the leader of a 6 unit seminar during pass

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design ... ? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I ... representation of warfare.) I like fried chicken, hot dogs, the sun - and an ... - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... with accompanying passages about the history of Boston's public transit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021