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  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  disease'...the preventative measure for this is actually feeding cows ... Davie '12's alarm (he's crashing with me for a few nights before moving ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words ... up all over campus, like turning the Green Building into a gigantic ... simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural ... can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it ... vibrate. As we turned up the volume, the molecules in the glass vibrated ... understanding this. Yay brains! Yay neurons! You have them to thank for all those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up ... “know” which chromosomes match up with which during anaphase (dividing of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  his friends). The video shows his reactions to the programs. For most ... along. Jaekyung's second work was a performance art piece he did for a ... who wanted to could come up and take a whack at the drum. I asked

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  for "Sharpe Brothers" - they have some pretty sweet videos up there ... who perform (juggle? spin? What's the correct verb for this?) diabolo ... /disliked/bookmarked/etc. For those that don't know about Pandora yet, it's basically free online

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was ... the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a ... he wound up there anyway, leading his team and his conference in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  up and do it. Challenge yourself. You'll decide what works for you soon ... Mr. Antunez, a new teacher who had grown up in Spain and Argentina and was known primarily for two things: 1) being an absolute hardass of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  Building's prodigious heights makes it useful not only for photography but also for other things, such as Course 12 experiments and the MIT Radio ... Liz, Cody, and me that he was going to be heading up to the roof of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  homes, tearing up the soccer field; stuff like that. It was really ... 't recommend this though. It doesn't work for everyone.) YeSeul >> Yes, please study for finals! Back to LTI... I don't know if you watched Oprah

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of ... required for Biographical Forms and Secondary School Reports. Sue processes ... after the document is entered into the system, it will show up in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... to have fun at the same time. Surprisingly enough, I actually came up ... even some wild animals. It all sounds really fantastic to me. But for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  some made-up data for our project, we're modeling actual coal plants ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... my major. Plus, you can't really beat the weather--I ran up what must

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  something for everyone that they failed to convey what made their institution ... admissions. “It helped me get real about what we’re actually looking for,” she ... put on things, trying to be something for everyone.” In USA Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting ... embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in ... or telephone, because the piles have expanded to cover the items up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  characteristic. What sort of experiment would you design to find out Y?" For an ... students are "highly encouraged" to show up at 8:30 AM -- the test officially starts at 9 AM. When professors "highly encourage" you to show up half an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  note: i wrote this as a project for #BlogstonCommons, which was a ... jebby’s blog draft that she whipped up in 20 minutes and got inspired so ... lowkey deep post about conversations with friends and meals as a method for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024