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  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as ... same time. I committed to the class and last week was one of the most

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... worth watching. They don't. But the drama between the models does.   ... sortof like LOST because of the interplay between past and the present

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... ), and it's one of the true ones. Looking around just my floor, I see Vicki ... trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  about the direction of our club and other high-level issues that are hard to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These ... calendar of note (aka, all of the things on my calendar): Science Bowl

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... you. Obviously, the greater the distance from your high school studies, the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while ... some of the leading scientists, theorists and practitioners who are ... /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to ... learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

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

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  to TAKE THE PLUNGE What does it mean to be an admissions blogger ... mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... ) through Global Startup Labs, the actual purpose of the trip! It’s an ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  . Can you give me an idea of what does the curriculum consists of? Any ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... (KVPY) conducted by the Government of India, IIT Bobaby and IISc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  the fancy shit. You knew it would be good when the names of the pizza ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are ... ’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... take advantage of the new feature they implemented after Randall Munroe

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio ... ... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your ... some of the stuff they say is just too funny. Most faculty members teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled ... . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018