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  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit ... -controlled set in a "disembodied performance" that integrates with and enhances the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  feelings that you don't know how to name; that's okay, too. For now, just ... application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were ... , here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... decided to stay here in Boston this summer which according to rumors is ... November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... . There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly ... in on time, you get full credit. If you turn it in late, you get half

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  ") and Crowded House ("Don't Dream It's Over"), in addition to naming 5 of ... 'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... ..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  , there's an official, MIT-specific definition). When you get to Campus ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  an art exhibit at MIT (in the New York Times!). And for now, off to ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin ... in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with ... have you. On the last day, I found an excuse to squeeze in some radio

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... less because they were in New England, had good names, I hadn't hated ... Guard was called in to put down drunken riots, I felt far outside the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the ... Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... support for undocumented students, and, in this uncertain time, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to ... some more and wrestle with the program to try to get a drawing or two out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... greetings to people in my class in probably twenty-five languages. I think the ... foreign language to me as of now, so I am really working extra in this class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009