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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... ."]lifting heavy things for its own sake.[/annotation] I love lifting heavy things. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... quotas or targets for any racial or ethnic group, but we can take steps to ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... have had tons of great opportunities to pursue this interest through MIT ... "Deadliest Catch," so I think I am going to settle for going to vet school

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one-armed man for applauding" ** A group from Thailand for "the medical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  , prompting inquiries into “differing cultural values” to account for the ... female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the ... asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  cultural fit to find your best space. PRICING: MIT has three tiers of dorm pricing, but be careful when looking at the pricing chart. For example, Mc ... skates, or hoverboard for an easy commute, and wait to get used to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for ... excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  some parts of the path, there were even options for us to take depending ... onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... to this day— CJ: Stopped 2 stops away. shivers Alan: The time for the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list ... good for myself, because otherwise I'll have to deal with something I ... I wanted to play with friends. Making something useful for others is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... other way around for life sciences PhD programs). I applied to mostly bio

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... to launch after graduation left me truly bitter about MIT for awhile

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  perfect essay... for a price, of course. (Anywhere from a few bucks for basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... ." That's all we're really looking for. To clarify, I'm not

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... annoyance with the local price discrepancy (read: gouging) spurs him to invent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them ... to help nudge me along on adventures and help find warm food for my ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , Lilly, and Petey for some CMS-related thoughts. Extra thanks to Mark, the CMS librarian, for the literature references. Thanks to Lumia and Paolo for commenting on drafts. Thanks to Wayne for snarking on drafts, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later ... directly to the Office of Admissions the FINAL APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022