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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often painful, Marilee Jones recalls. Not because of anything her daughter Nora

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

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a classmate about the class of 2019, and we agree that college acceptances have ... reflections): "6. I have a list of all the applicants whose stories really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... , who got her master's in aero/astro last spring. (Yes, two of the people ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by a sense of resignation. Common wisdom around MIT says that freshmen

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  : Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... curiosity. Below are some Highlights of my October, occasionally enhanced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... selection, visual thinking and communication, kinematics of mechanisms ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... . As promised, Sam showed up wearing a suit, holding a giant box of ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... experiments and write the final draft of the paper. I've been moving numbers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  semester of MIT. I offer the analogy that MIT semesters give large pillars of ... 's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009