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  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For ... Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of the ways that I’ve changed at MIT. So, for most of freshman year, I ... indecisiveness about my major at the end of freshman year. It was basically that I ... of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  while isolated at home, but I feel guilty not taking advantage of the ... communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled ... [/button_link] The idea of “home” has, unsurprisingly, been at the front of my mind

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  at East Campus’ Fred Fest, or in the case of the small concert held in ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  amount of sleep before I'd have to wake up super early. Of course, at 5 in ... building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing cold outside. None of the firefighters seemed very happy to be up at this

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  cry, made me stare at the ceiling at 3am and question my sense of self ... 's conclusion, where at the end of the day all those cliches are, in Bo's words ... movie" and it didn't feel like that at all. The movie of my life sucks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  have these traits as outgoing people. There are many types of people at ... schools and one of the factors I'm considering is the social scenes at the ... groups at many places on the web, including the Office of the Arts website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  into tech when I know it's not what I want to do at the end of the day ... experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that ... dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  backseat of a lesser sized yellow overpriced mini beast until I arrived at ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table ... and poked at a few of them, just to see what would happen. My un ... on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  manipulate and assemble nanowires at the National Institute of Standards and ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... an onsite visit at a local biopharmaceutical company with a group of ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... , analyzing some of the coolest art I’ve ever seen at the outdoor deCordova, and ... home and no energy left at the end of the day to do anything but make the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... . Mountains, denser houses than I had imagined. Lots of farmland at the foot of ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014