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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  at the entrance by Germain Louvet, a “star dancer” of the Opéra de ... étoile at the age of 23 as recognition for his standout performance as ... importance of scenery setting the mood for the opera, it at least provides an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point ... . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... -3 weeks of work, meetings, and emails into a tight abstract). At the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... difficult. At MIT, we can only admit one out of every six applicants. And, as ... -age students, while the number of spaces in incoming classes at these highly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  down, being an MIT student at all is something that I should be proud of ... of shot an application at PlayStation for the heck of it; also, my ... with their recruiting. This meant that a lot of juniors - my peers at the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  busier at MIT, I personally preferred the hustle and bustle of MIT to the idyllic peace at Cambridge. At MIT, there was more of a sense of personal ... , at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  of them some tasty tangerines at the end! CPW is awesome. Everything is awesome right now at MIT, even if we have tons of work next week and ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of ... we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  on behalf of all the residents at Next. This semester Muriel added her full support after observing the RBA program at Next. And after a lot of ... was a great community where I still hang out and pset at frequently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  anything before it. None of this is the case at MIT. The students at MIT ... Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  Science - neither of which are accepted for credit at MIT. And I'm fairly ... [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  been one of my favorite classes at mit. i've been able to make systems ... games. discord servers of communities i'm in make me feel at [annotation ... activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  *idea* of a Summer Job. And with that, on some level, we equated being at ... Computer Graphics Research at University of Miami Learning from Sophomore ... We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  here: please keep in mind that all of the following are, at worst, only ... % serious at best. By “at best,” I of course mean, “at funerals.”) -8 ... Buckethead walks back in at the end of his trip. Note: some details about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people ... Dordle, guessing two Wordles at once Squardle, guessing a grid of ... of a bygone era of the internet. Some highlights: The tiny text at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... Animation (taken at MassArt) Allan: 6.009 Fundamentals of Programming 6 ... during the rough spots of the semester, when every second had to be used at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... festivities, I joined up with Sandra G. '19 — studying abroad this term at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  processing of all materials at this busy time. If you need to switch from ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  processing thousands of applicant documents at this time. If you have ... Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012