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• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and ... is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  the mic in their hand New York, NJ, N.C., VA We on Award Tour with ... Called Quest Hello All! As you can see I'm taking the fight to the people! In the last few weeks I had MIT Central meetings in Washington, DC

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  with students taking an active part in the discussion. I'll try to note some of the more interesting events as IAP progresses. Also, I asked in a ... events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... piece of digital interactive fiction. I ended up choosing to write this in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... life and in this process there isn’t much they can do to help beyond

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology ... to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza ... evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  master's student, I can't live in the[annotation note="There are graduate dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a ... my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience ... -- you'll thank me in 2016 :) So what was I going to say? Oh, you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I recently realized that I am almost done with my major requirements (as in, I ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe ... across the main island. In my typical fashion I arrived at the train

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... home to London, and while I stood in line to board the plane some man ...     (Photo credit for these two goes to Julie H. '11) I was amazed by how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  -to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  in its foods, language, and people. And through all this, I can now say ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... both cornerstones of my experience in Taipei last summer. i got this ... dozens of these sometime early in the year, so i grabbed 3(rd) and put them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020