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  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... of Clay at a certain internet message board at which Sam's Mom may or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  competition Scrutineering portion of the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) began at ... Nature has to offer along the route and were honoured to be a part of such ... encouragement you provided. Some of the team members at the finish line

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has ... there, and at certain hours to hold rehearsals. The great advantages of ... “meetinghouse of MIT.” Music at MIT Today Fast-forward to 2025: the opening of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  , and social sciences - classes during your time here at MIT.  Of those ... right at the bat of the semester.  At any other time, the grade you get on ... .013 and 7.014 are offered in the spring.  All of these classes cover the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... the computer science minor. 8. Having regrets. At the end of the day ... activities. Well, of course I felt at the time that those student jobs were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... metric is, at its core, an understanding of distance. We measure distance ... learn analysis at their speed and have all of the resources at their

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... , and it felt like I was seeing it for the first time. At the end of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I think ... years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can ... offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra ... feature histories of each major at MIT. I *really* want to know if one ... At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] a screenshot of HEAVEN[/caption] look at all that white ... this a lot last semester, but i really didn't see ANY of my friends at ... of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  almost from scratch. After collapsing, exhausted, at the end of the long ... , man. You turned out alright. At the culmination of this penultimate ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  critics of elite admissions processes tend to make their cases at the ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... at a certain percentage of our class. It gives us the freedom to take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least ... appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... ropes and trapeze—I made it up and out! At the end of the day, the group

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... freshman, because there's a lot of downtime, so I was pretty much stuck at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess ... alumnae-turned-astronomers at various institutions. I e-mailed all of them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  'd encounter "only at MIT."  To do that, we did about a year of research ... offering in-person information sessions and tours at this time. We hope to do ... 3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021