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  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring ... know nothing whatsoever about. Creative responses in the comments section ... if you have anosognosia The etymology of entymology The troll in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• 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 ... , citing a lack of interviewers in my region. Will this adversely affect my ... ? My response: When you get there, take classes in both departments and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a freshman-- How are you doing in your intro classes? How much sleep are you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  't log in, don't worry; we'll be flexible with the Regular Action deadline, and will post more details in the next few days. As previously posted ... news from our friends in IS&T. In the meantime, thanks for your

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... at your application again and consider it in the context of the Regular ... underlying benefits or disadvantages in already having your application read

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston from lying down on my bed in the dark with window shades up. The night ... skyline outside my window. You should know that in Boston, the weather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... to the fact that your covered in sharp objects in the freezing cold

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ever!) being the best class ever. All the way back in September, we talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  You’ve read in my blog entries about the weekly Engineering ... -hour activities on Fridays that give GELs hands-on experience in our “Capabilities ... ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the ... with current MIT students in a casual environment and discuss how MIT ... , and college in general. This year the date is set for Saturday, October

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when ... long been engaged in philanthropy, having served as the student council president at her high school. In her position, she coordinated a canned food

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the choir, played oboe in band and full orchestra, and participated in every ... smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... this IAP and last IAP was my ruthlessness in adapting recipes. Some were

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... athletics and UROPs, are in full swing, and the GEL Program is no exception

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving Gobble gobble!

  

  . :) -Elizabeth (currently in Washington D.C. with Maita '13's family!)

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  schedule out there. Tests introduce a whole new variable in time management ... in class to real case studies, such as the merger between US Airways and America West. Now that we’ve gotten past our only test in the class

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school, having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010