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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP  all-expenses paid in Korea, teaching kids science/English. I never gave ... during IAP. But one night in September, I was checking my emails, writing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... available on MyMIT in January. On the Midyear Report, you will provide us with ... updates in other formats, including mail and email, but the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside ... supermarket shelf. This is, however, a cultivation (and not just in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where ... observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20,000 feet in the air, you feel deceptively little motion; you'd only know it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . Matt '11, another GEL, was featured in the winter 2011 issue of MIT ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... of laughter and sympathetic looks. MIT does the best job in the world

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  : In no particular order: Don't worry. We have your mail. We've been ... igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This ... should be keeping the Midyear Report in the back of your mind. All Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  in the 8.012 section had an exam. Proctor (smiling): "8.012? Are you sure you're in the right place?" Me: ... Proctor: "Is 8.012 even in this building?" Me (bristling): "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this building

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards ... tradition known as the Novembeard ("No Shave November" in some regions, or ... , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  ’s his duty to chat about the Yankees and the Red Sox with the person in ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... didn’t get their farecards in advance. Meanwhile, my sister and I, with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  probably an appropriate time to address the issues that Cam brought up in his post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  This entry from Elizabeth in 2010 has been re-posted in celebration ... .). In honor of his departure from our 7.03 class, I figured I’d dedicate a ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... another year in this past decade where we admitted more than 100 students ... great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I wouldn't be surprised in this ... admitted. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in because I expressed my number in scientific notation? Do I need more Sig ... hours tooling for a C on a test, and you should take pride in your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  bashed in by the Big Rock Tribe." Thus begins a wonderful book by Dave ... occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... I was in China. Look, here's proof! : Just Wednesday night, I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  They say that today's graduation theme was "MIT students in service ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out ... squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the ... all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008