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  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it is hard for me to express how impressed and jealous I am. Growing up ... ended up designing my own, hands-on activities for the students. Since I ... , it probably wouldn't even qualify as a city. Where is it? Up in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  personal home for the past three years. Our tour guide, Maddie L. ‘26, is a ... ’s head over there and meet up with our next tour guide: Natalie B. ‘25 ... we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  unfiltered thoughts. which may or may not be a good thing. what have i been up ... chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long ... week, and then staying up really late on thursday night and going to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  buildings were little toy models. I was sad, but I was also excited. Up until ... infinite. I was filled with boyish wonder, and I was ready for my grand ... week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  . We're trading pumpkin dances for turkeys and Christmas carols sung ... mid-semester work than coming up with an awesome costume, but such is ... Shaws. My suite upped its decoration game after one of our freshmen, Jimmy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  alike compete to think up and build innovative software and hardware projects over the span of 24 hours. Throughout the week leading up to Hack ... opportunities for artists, engineers, business people, and entrepreneurs alike to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place ... ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... ways, and if you end up at another school, who knows what values you will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  was 3 years old. I’ve lived in Georgia for practically my whole life ... the reason, I grew up as a creative “do-er.” I kept busy whether it was ... applying to). Ultimately, I ended up applying to MIT during regular decision

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  a picture with Flat Ryan, naturally he was all up for it. Also, fun ... Sharp, the one who won the Nobel for discovering introns and exons??" Yes ... weeks, 'cause we're gonna be holed up studying our booties off! My

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  first place, all for the sake of coolness or whathaveyou. Therefore, it ... pictures, I got up on a ledge bordering the entire atrium. Cool. That is ... expect giant floor art before zombies, or the ceiling opening up to reveal

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  't yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and ... for Secondary School Reports. The day after the document is entered into the system, it will show up in the online tracking system. But the fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it ... The proposed wiki would describe the following for every pressing global ... recognition for their work. This proposal is doubtless ambitious, and it's an

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  accepted. The event filled up 10-250, our second (third?) largest lecture ... sure you back up your assertions with reliable sources. Me on the ... awareness and send prayers for peace in Burma. The event was held on October 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  for over 40 years!) These quotes have peppered my notebook all term, so ... instinct comes into play when B<0. So up here in the first quadrant we ... don't know, it's like when Jennifer gets fed up with Charlie and dumps

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets, papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... recommend it. c. A fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau: Hung out and caught up on Grey

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... up on some of your MIT jargon... Bruno - A unit of volume resulting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  . Unfortunately, with term starting up again, I've been preoccupied with classes. I ... next few days, I will have another entry up. With photographs. I even ... -chemical basis for the structures of nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... they'd set up like 15 people holding 6 boards and you'd have to wonder ... of them, then he'd just calmly walk up, jump 4 feet in the air, do a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005