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• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... feeling whenever you push or publish something, is terribly valueless to you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  snug. Out the window, giant snowflakes fell to the barren ground outside ... needed help from someone. Anyone. I reached out to God. “God, please make ... there, fighting the urge to push the orange nurse call button, I realized

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  't know what I'm talking about, I direct you to Snively's post, which noted ... get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay!" I will tell ... not looking forward to this semester because I was really bummed about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the ... jubilation to dissipate. The weather was markedly poor during the third week in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... or inspiration to have anything to say. But ah well, so it goes sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never had the opportunity to visit Greg, so this past weekend was my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  ;          ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial ... ’ve been working with artist Otto Piene + the MIT Museum to produce ... .” Return to this page at 5pm ~ this Saturday The liftoff will be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can enter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came ... today, I received an email from Sivakami '11, asking me to do the same ... projects involve MIT students being awesome and (b) they both relate to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is ... towards the Course 9 core requirements but also to the MIT communication ... , haha: integral of 1/(1-x)^2*dx? - yeah, definitely had to look up partial

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am ... the loss of sleep one single bit. To explain: Milan, MIT's annual ... : My friends and I were among the first to arrive at Milan; not being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  Well hey there, blogosphere. Newbie #4 here. To the admissions ... [hopefully] to you guys, I'm Elizabeth - just your average course 20 ... ?? Crap.) here to tell you about life at this "quirky and special" place. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  the ChemE building), I actually have time to shop at Trader Joe’s at ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in ... , though, I was lucky to make it into Boston (and I’m excluding visiting the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  so much cool great fantastic stuff, that it becomes tough to blog because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life ... out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010