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• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... whether you can paint your room is one of those little quirks to look at. I ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the ... donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... research project in six weeks. I attended RSI myself in high school, and this ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual ... , and standardized tests. Can we rely solely on these tools? I say no

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  has been sitting largely in its tote bag on my shelf because I wanted to ... usually travel on a daily basis, I want to cover as much as I can. I want to ... pretty quirky, MIT can be beautiful. :) Two... I told someone the other

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during ... bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... for marshmallows[/caption] artistic terrorization I forgot how exactly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  time in my life. I never had gaming consoles when I was younger, so this ... exactly is Genshin? / How do you play Genshin? I’m glad you asked! Genshin ... person in the picture is Albedo, who’s an alchemist. I don’t have a lot of

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  , to fangirl, and maybe to show how MIT can become a home for fellow I ... will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  once. They are gentle and severe. I want this woman to teach me how to write. You can read the first essay in the book, "Time and Distance ... in Central Square and lost it on the plane back home. In between, I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic ... wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  the situation? I can't emphasize this enough: make sure to review ... should be soon.  I know the college application process can be, like ... not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... circadian rhythm into obedience. 9:15 AM I feel up all the avocados in my ... I can finally work 40-hour weeks now! 12:35 PM LUNCH TIME I make a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be applied to solve real problems and I hope I can go back to India to start my ... to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... 't know if MIT has a wind tunnel, but if they do, I want to put bikes in ... to win races, they can use technology. Well, I guess that's just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007