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  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... training and officer planning, learning from one another how to become more

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way ... track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first ... do whatever I set my mind to?" It's often easy to forget in the midst

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  get to be awesome and actually save lives. For real. I know, I know, you ... anyone who doesn't know how to swim jump into a pool ten feet deep???" That ... nonetheless. Today, for example, in one hour alone I had to handle one accident

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  mean, I think I will end up getting one but I just want to make sure I ... there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before ... admitted to MIT for the class of 2010? Do graduate/Ph.D students get an IAP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... .") In essence, you’re asked to squeeze your entire identity into a couple ... psychology departments so I'll know how to fully answer an applicant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  of Destiny Do you want to get lost in the bacon-y, bacon-y sauce? Yes ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  . Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... some badly needed sleep with my lovely temp roommate. I'm not sure how to ... blogger, I'll try to keep you updated. 1. Sleep. Getting enough of it will

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  good idea to live in a quad because I'd get to meet three other people ... , 2003: Bryan boards flight 382 from Houston to Boston. So I get to my ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  and how you might want to fill them in while planning your activities ... free to get funky with this one and try reading your essay in Broadway ... competition, get a head start in the womb!). Freshman year - sophomore year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film ... replies that she adds salt at the end to prevent okra from getting watery ... better. Or that was how things were going to play out anyways. And frankly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... Couple Of Weeks In my last entry, I promised to answer the popular

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  more attention to how it felt and tasted in my mouth than its appearance ... that when i get sick now, it's up to me to manage my symptoms and judge ... very nice. who doesn't like getting little treats? like, i love going to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  your cross stitching gear and learn how to cross stitch a cool custom MIT ... am employed this year, in an industry that wasn't absolutely devastated ... 'm actually getting a paycheck and have health insurance. Difference 2 - I am

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  together last term. We get along great now (or know how to fake it with ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In ... . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to ... didn't know then how to train myself to get stronger -- honestly, I feel ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  and how to raise better children. In other academic news: for the first ... , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018