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  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  something today. Oh, my name is Kellen and I work in the communications wing ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  malfunction in our darn WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I was stuck in an auto-repair shop in ... ?) – but I couldn’t resist?! Ice cream, in the making ... squares are… well. You’ll see in the picture below. Later, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I ... . Given all that has happened, how can you not talk about the hurricane ... families affected by Hurricane Katrina. Let us know how we can best support

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... 't worry!" it says. "I'll save you! Stop going to class so that you can do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In ... RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how capitalization rules can be manipulated in order to force acronyms to spell words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Action is simply a reflection of this. Snively I mentioned in this entry ... , I will scan it in and publish it here. Valentine's Day ...is coming ... particularly awesome, although I can't afford it. :-( That's About It... We

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts in the past: People often ask me, "How do I stand out ... doesnt, rewrite it until it does (because if your friends can't see you in your words, how can we?). Good luck, and happy writing!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... only solace in the fact that, every time I took the 1 bus up the street ... changes like this in every corner of my being. When I started singing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  happened next was inspiring.  I've always thought that you can tell a lot ... Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... or root against. And then today's tragic events happened.  In a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this ... !" I'm not sure how far this goes into convincing skeptics of the truth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  . Nothing gold can stay. etc. etc. etc.  We obviously couldn’t leave without one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  absolutely the right decision. I took three classes in my major this last ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the ... .006 test. This was a problem. I can't study during CPW, especially since I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... -long schedule, is like. I know other exchange students who were placed in housing ... -MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... this in another blog, but I did nearly all of my readings this semester! I was in a writing workshop that assigned 60-100 pages of fiction per

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  .) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013