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  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  on a beach and a septuplet-filled "paranoid" take on Robert Frost

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was ... minutes immediately after getting to the beach before we realized that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  question on the self-reported coursework section. It states it should be ... universities, MIT has a quota for the number of international students it can ... "recruitment" that other universities do. Certainly, we will recognize your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown ... and I attended an hour-long breakdancing class, which involved none ... to trek over to Tufts University and catch a sweet breakdancing

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  State University of New York at Stony Brook where he earned his masters in ... 's degree in physics, Goodman embarked on a career in technology, entering the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting ... communities; some have been granted a formal high school diploma, while others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ) I really love doing scientific research, 2) life is long, and getting ... relationship to science in general. The post ended up being a little long, so ... watching Star Wars for the first time in middle school and developing a years-long

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission ... . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  Indigenous People's Day long weekend (not just one extra day but two! what ... Notch National Forest and State Park. It was a truly incredible trip: we ... for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... it. More than a decade (and a graduate degree in media studies from MIT ... only encountered these concepts in the academic context long after

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... institutions of the United States are subject to forces similar to those that are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... , given that the text explicitly states (contrary to its title) that “no words or phrases have been banned at the university.” Even so, it's pretty

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  University of Illinois for my participation in Science Olympiad. I put my ... . Maria wrote: I live in Korea. And Korea has a long winter break. I want to ... think winter activities, given your long break, would be appropriate if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  state cultures that has helped me realize just how different the world can be. Whether its realizing that Texas has their own state pledge you say ... states I now call home. However, my interest for blogging and writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  largely looked like me. A lot of us are poor, black, and had lost any long ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because ... school. For a long time I had been very out of touch with other ethnic

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP) Michigan State University High ... Young Scientists (PROMYS) The Ross Program Stanford University ... Program (SSEP) Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of-state

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  "C's get degrees" and move on with my life as soon as possible. But ... Security Strategy, assess how well the United States is adhering to its own ... where the United States behavior supports the position taken in the essay

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  in Orlando, West Palm Beach, Miami, and Tampa, Florida; and Orange County, Westwood, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Long Beach ... , South-, Central- and North-Jersey, Manhattan, Queens, Long Island

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago ... politics isn’t likely to capture ESFJs’ interest for too long. ESFJs are more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017