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  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  are new people; in my time at MIT, I’ve been around people from the ... new people: new roommates my freshman year, new people in every club I ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... be the creators and innovators of tomorrow engage in pursuits today

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  humankind. This conviction is nothing new. In 1949, the Lewis Report, which ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  N , which we just resolved. In addition, we add a new constraint that all ... (published in 2004)—this one is based on Dehn’s original proof. “A New ...  by Peter R. Cromwell (published in 1997 by Cambridge University Press in New

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... semester, an exciting new resource called Interstellar was born! Interstellar ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... 't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  checking these channels out in your free time to learn something new that you ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... easier than ever to share new information with others. But despite this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014