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• 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 / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... weeks touring places like the Media Lab, getting lost in the infinite

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... get into MIT undergrad. And then every college in America could do the ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• 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 / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  .[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how ... because none of us had ever been to Rhode Island before. In an attempt to ... nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering ... an international intern before. A few nerves started to kick in, but I ... started to get that overwhelmed feeling again, wondering if I really was

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• 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
• 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 / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text ... efforts to understand how we can best evaluate academic readiness for all

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  late but it was great to see other MIT students again. Since we live in different colleges and are taking different classes, it's nice to have get ... past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... ongoing event in rolling text". Apparently this used to be something that ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about James Joyce, and thought about many things as she learned to swim in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans speak to each other in German. But there are foreigners here too, a decent ... ;advantageous" for being recognized. But the decision to write in German wasn't

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  all weekend and getting lost in the tunnels trying to get to a far ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in ... ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  ... I've been working in Morgan's lab ever since. I get paid $10 an hour ... advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... students to have problems getting into good grad programs, however! 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... 's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006