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• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  -qualified, under-represented minority applicants. (Remember, this is not up for ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a ... grades and scores. Now that you have controlled for those factors, please

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  famous for holding up a microphone stand without the bottom part. 3. What ... later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for ... for Burton-Conner, a scholar of the history of technology, and a regular

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I ... as I wanted. And the big plus, on Sundays I could bring a friend for ... coaster for the coffee I pretend to drink, reading thin newspapers like the

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... argument about what the proper name is for a soft drink. Most people said ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online ... for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay ... for a good cause.) ----------- 7/29 EDIT I don't think the admissions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I ... except for our own voices and some very excitable bullfrogs. There were

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... them look deceptively simple. Take, for example, one of this year ... team members are tallied for a country team score. This year, the top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  (for which I still owe you the summary, I know) we had a group discussion ... hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  stay flexible and look for places that would be reasonable for between five and seven people, but that was harder than it seemed. For one, 5-bed ... frustrating. We spent hours on Zillow looking for places and contacting agents

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  PHIL 179. Afterwards, I signed up for the class R suggested and enjoyed ... mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get ... you could be studying for, or a UROP you could be working on, etc. etc

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of ... myself. Had I not taken the advanced standing exam for 18.03, I might be studying for the actuarial exams these days instead of turning turkey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  student watched me awkwardly shove a swab up my nose for the first time. I ... questionably soggy apples from the Target trip, and waking up early for my FPOP ... the last group to board the plane. When my group was called, I stood up

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  't name, I open up a blank Wordpress file and start typing. It barely feels ... tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fall term"]FPOP[/annotation] for Course 10, ChemE, where they sent us ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... lives fighting for endangered species protection. I got the sense that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... questions immediately after they're asked instead of saving them up for a Q ... was for those involved, but it definitely worked...to an extent. And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  giving up, I read articles and messaged people subletting for the summer ... never actually tried suicide, but has willed for unconsciousness for a ... patch of 3-in-1 oil that he used for model trains, hitting his head, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  works -- pulled up. I talked to them for a bit, listened to their music ... represent my friends, home, and love for nature. Everyone who knows me knows ... for hours if you let me. The "fly the W" sticker also relates to the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... : 09/21/2022[/caption] I was dormant for over ten minutes, watching the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  picked up just through the process of reading papers for this class. 21A ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021