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• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  binary star passes in front of another binary star, you get an eclipse. The ... with scientists in Chile, Arizona, and Hawaii (if you want to travel to ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York ... : and done lots of weird things in our suite, usually after spending more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a ... Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  happens in there. I've found that it's sometimes easy to forget that this ... So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  encourages students interested in UROPs to be persistent and to apply to ... to the process. At MIT, Sid is completing a double major in Biology ... For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  jubilation to dissipate. The weather was markedly poor during the third week in ... dark and sunless. But, I still managed to find time to relax in the ... I continued to wallow in what seemed to be my final moments with my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  from New Jersey). Unfortunately, we were eliminated in the divisional ... MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  's always nice to see the median voter theorem in action. What courses would ... Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to ... international development" from an economic perspective in previous courses, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do. Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the ... decided to join in, I let a loud scream rip. A few folks poked their heads

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... exhibit. We went to Litchballett (literally, ‘light ballet’ in ... an art show that Hans Haacke held at MIT in 1967. To quote the little

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to ... campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via email to schedule an interview ... frequently. Details about our interview process and what to expect are
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... other eager freshmen, still believed 24 hours in a day was surely enough

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... strange new worlds, to seek our new life and new civilizations, to boldly go ... astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago had put together a video to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010