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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time ... so kind in helping me learn to use the control board. On Wednesday, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... that added challenge was something we just really did not know how to ... this, we were very enthusiastic to speak up in class when we knew an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  , most anyone can figure out how to put one foot in front of the other, but ... entire thermodynamics lecture to just talking about how cool airplanes are ... to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  and Shaena showed us how to get our bodies out over the side of the bike ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... corner). Video: The ride terminated (as most rides ought to) in a hot tub

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... from one list to the other, in this case from the admit list to the ... it too, in part because of me, I'm so, so sorry. If you want to talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... about how MIT students spent their days in classes, clubs, or hobbies, so ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  enroll in the program in their sophomore year and immediately get started ... capstone senior year NEET project. Along the way, students also get to engage ... Matthew Perry in Japan in 1853 with the purpose of “opening up” Japan to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days ... Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... they met with her. They weren't offering money to get in; they and their ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... aerospace acheivement in the history of aerospace. Back to the question ... of living in an uncertain world." How do you make systems that are so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  you is to get in and then receive your award.']clearly communicable ... have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  I get to see him regularly. I hadn't seen the other friend in about ... , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in the same class and left to think about how our fates were still unknown ... going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  's tough to get good outdoor flying weather in New England on a consistent ... :) I think if I try to stereotype, I'm just going to get myself in ... in their seminars) and are open only to freshmen. The seminars offered

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... utilized to connect pieces of the colon in patients with Crohn’s disease, or ... near you in less than five years. The translation from bench to bedside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008