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  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  of the San Diego EC group.  My response to his question was to stress ... ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this ... an admissions committee, we desire diversity of all sorts, we don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems ... in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  . These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  wrong but existing address. I’ll use fake e-mails for the sake of privacy ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  . Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation ... yelled to her friends, “HEY! This guy has a master’s degree and he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  to the boy I thought was the love of my life, or goodbye to the boy I thought was the love of my life. I've spent these past few days revisiting ... walk by the food court in The Source and only see shadows of past selves

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.   ... vehicle at a 45 degree relative to the forward motion of that vehicle, at ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. In Chicago, I visited the Field Museum and the Museum of Science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... the majority of my days with them. It's an incredible feeling knowing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... seeing what my pen did. "Well shoot, I've already sold like three of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013... Jonte '13 ... 2009 graduate of Franklin County High School, is one of 12 students ... of Technology (MIT) this fall, where he will major in civil or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011