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  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  experience was for me and I really want to do it again (and I encourage you to ... one. It confirmed for me that I wanted to go into Education and gave me ... . ----- As I try to reach for my own life goals of mastering French and Korean

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  , studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I ... is 21M.601, Drawing for Designers, our first assignment was to do ... South Korea over IAP this year to teach again for GTL, but my friend held

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  sounds ridiculous, but this was our mindset for four years, from fifth to ... ="Our teacher for eighth grade U.S. History in School B happened to be the teacher ... surface.  For every essay we wrote in her class, she encouraged us to be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I ... , then we also have to undergo some training in exchange for the free food ... . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT ... .) There is no way to convince me that the Designated Hitter rule is good for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... information for various teams at the company, so I got to learn a lot about cool ... for that"]understand.[/annotation] What I’m trying to understand, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... to produce a generation of offspring with random point mutations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... stuff) to more advanced theoretical work for those with the requisite ... opportunities for doing research. I'm actually not 100% sure why I went to MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  is open to members of the general public for viewing and when all ... this summer, but the upshot is that we just look for students to describe their project in simple terms for the intelligent layperson, and to help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  YouTube for me to learn, so I started mirroring and slowing videos so I ... answer I have for you guys is… the first time I heard a song I started to ... wanted to focus on urban dance for my first year in college. I ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  arrange for our rings to be delivered to us. I'm grateful this was made ... to putting on my Brass Rat for in-person events. In the spring, I lost ... think is the perfect name for the event) was to be held on Sunday

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... heavy. I wanted to post something lighter before I go into all of that ... to a close for all you high school students out there. Maybe summer

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... about the Red Sox. Because had it not been for the MIT Blogs, I'm not ... allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  offer advice/tutorials for younger students. Their ambition is "to become ... near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  more on its pictures to tell story rather than its dialogue. For our first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... before can be used to depict this. Her professor is a heavy-set, pear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  and artists and tons of little shops.  However, once we got to Santa ... country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  a ton of opportunities (Rush, CPW, Bad Ideas, etc.) to be a part of ... the nose for it. Cons of living in EC: + People tend to put all the ... culture, which in turn allows for people to feel like they can be more

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... , I already have something to look forward to for all four of them. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012