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• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... — have found meaning in these books too. You may be encountering this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

   and take some fun classes and do some fun things here in Boston. ...cooked ... horizontal hierarchy and whitespace in our arrangements. Pretty cool. Got to ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... written, because it demonstrates in fact what, in our decisions day posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  more in my first year here. With the quote displayed on the giant screen ... been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... critical thinking, gain wisdom about the world and our place in it. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  Pre-trip background: IAP (Independent Activities Period) in Pavia ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  plans for the future, and also will be hitting the 50% point in my book ... months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an environment that would let me follow my own intellectual curiosity in intriguing ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... community to participate in what was happening. So did many other people, and ... registration initiative that allows anyone to register to vote in Massachusetts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I ... . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13 ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool ... Under 30 Lists in 2016 More than Two Dozen from MIT Named to Forbes 30 ... years, there have been 89 30 Under 30 MIT alumni. I was interested in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week ... last semester’s trials and tribulations in 7.05 Biochemistry (bottom left) and 20.310 Biomechanics (the other three pages). For each exam in 20

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014