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  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... eating in my dorm, this usually is enough food to last a week. I typically

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s joy in challenge, in starting out having absolutely no idea how to begin ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  said in order to get this kid to make this face. Also there was the ... here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , then read it again. Kirstyn sat out in the hall, on her laptop. To get to ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... forward to in the next two years. PC: Chheangkea Ieng.   Best ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don't like writing or will stop writing text posts, but I just want to experiment more beyond comics and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  : Integrated Chemical Engineering 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch/Time to breathe 1:00 - 2 ... seminar in Japanese Politics and Society 3:00 - 5:00 PM: seminar in Japanese ... was awake. "Hey Boone, I went to office hours for ICE tonight." "Cool

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... student thing to do." This is the best compliment I've received in the past ... Have you ever wondered how different college mascots are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what you need to do

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new entries recently to keep folks entertained and informed). While I was busily ... several tables over from me also seemed to be reading applications. As it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make ... -so-cute-yet-not-very-intimidating mascot) crowd surfing later in the night? It was the perfect end to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  'm optimistic. If you're the guy mentioned in this blog entry, I was so shocked upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that ... , too? Guy: Really? Sam: Yeah, you just have to go back to the admissions

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  is that she knows how to get herself produced," said Krevolin. Last ... articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves to warm fuzzy socks, there was truly everything at this event. The ... really refreshing to be in a community so supportive and kind! My roommate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester ... . 2.ThA - Undergraduate Thesis How to write your thesis 101 2.A35

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006