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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... . i wanted to say that one year isn't that long in the span of things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the ... picnic a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing him and his band of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

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• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  After submitting your application, you will be notified if there is an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via…
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  heartstrings. We love how hopeful it's tone is! It's a very I-can ... — So rested he by the Tumtum tree      And stood awhile in thought. I ... phrase "I am confusion" in conversation and we both use it occasionally too

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  contact your interviewer ASAP in case your EC can still accommodate you. An ... , so that you can track your documents. I know that the Midyear ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can ... a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about ... -programming. Behold in Awesome Wonderment the pace from which I execute MIT Admissions

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... its own indigenous people just feels weird. in other news, i am overdue ... as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... ! This really meant a lot to me, and I can’t wait to spend the next year on ... miles at least once every day for four weeks. I started to feel pain in my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... :00 in the morning I was absolutely exhausted. We're talking tired. It was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... something very, very satisfying in garnishing soup with plants from your own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... has been twelve years. I am so very old. A lot has happened in the last ... in my mid-thirties. Maybe I will be married with children. Maybe I will

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  hands to pull in the rope. But you can NEVER LET GO of the rudder! So I ... Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... everyone my sailing story over and over because I can tell it to everyone

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square. After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours ... 's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for ... episode. I finally got sucked in this year - it's really good.  

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy ... in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... outside my own dorm window[/caption] It doesn't snow too often in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... . There are many strengths to poetry, but in particular I love the ability

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019