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  Championship Series. My friends and I had planned a West Wing season premiere ... .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a ... super hero group is a bit easier than getting in. Bullwinkle Moose Yes ... through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  how to design.  That is why to be a good software engineer, you must ... autonomous subteam, I realized a lot of it was thinking about how in class we ... something. That’s how they learn. 4) Making mistakes is how you learn I think

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  , among other things, means that I now have a Broad email address! Right now ... a day, Monday through Friday, I'm taking 6.189 - a crash course in ... here's a look at what I'll be doing for the next three weeks: More

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal ... both in my life. i dont need to… pick? i feel like that’s a question that’s ... this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  whatever it is that you're officially "doing" this summer, summer days pile ... . In a nutshell, summer is a diced onion, once carefully layered and ... that the outer layer is mingling amongst the inner core. Summer is a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and the rain is sufficient to water [annotation note="I have all sorts of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  doing something compelling. Yes, that's right, I don't think there is one ... to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions ... can be. From reading Aden's comments on my predraft, I learned that a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  . Seriously, this is what we do for kicks. If you think that's lame, MIT is not ... .600: Things (i.e. students) act like trees that die in the winter and ... !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for ... % confidence level! However, I included neither a witty pun nor a colon in my ... See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can ... concluded that a Bates White report projecting substantially higher potential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  is salt ramen. i think that’s the magic tonkotsu, of using bone in the ... harvard square. i'd say they're both far walks. the santouka in boston is a ... good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor ... “What’s course 12 again?” That’s a question I deal with a lot when ... and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... subject that you want to major in. You do not need to choose the teacher ... process is the same in this case. I get many questions about what subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this ... discuss them. So what I'm asking you to discuss is not in regards to the ... smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  example, I think a lot of schools abroad don't realize that MIT is a ... sites that you think do an excellent job? At times, I felt a little out ... demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  whose lab I work in, who is also my biology academic advisor, and he just emailed back saying that it is "mature and thoughtful... I wouldn't change a ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  , because it is a truly angsty experience that has been in the works for ... that is 100% whomstve "yeah" can be used in a pretty chill way. we don ... you ask), which is “a type of search tree that stores an associative

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  . That's why they can't predict the date in advance. I know it may seem ... -semester seniors. I know the month of March is an incredibly stressful time (I was in ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  in an activity I really love doing. In addition, we liked that we were ... conversation is less of a distinctive memory if that makes sense. Doing an ... socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020