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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks ... MIT in comMITment, the freshmen are not. Personally, I applied to MIT ... free food than other majors. I just had a great sandwich. In full

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... element was being suppressed in favor of talking up the product. (I know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  CPW 2011! I hope you '15s realize exactly how excited we all are to see ... handle it. During CPW, I sat in on an 8.02 (Physics II: Electricity and ... ton of in-class demonstrations, in honor of CPW. I came away from those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... -sharing because I'm the only person who knows everyone in the room. So my strategy ... (in the style of the This is Fine dog), and I guess you could think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  congratulate me every time I passed, which was often. In the evening, my friend ... the event. Several commented on the fact that I have (almost) successfully evaded teenage pregnancy. Apparently, 20 = adult. In exciting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... technologies from 18 households without electricity in Kien Svay, developing and

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself ... The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  can provide lots of great ideas. I hope that if you're interested in ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this ... little-known fact that we in admissions get as excited about cool projects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of factors, one of which is how long selection takes. And as you know, we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• 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 ... how can we cure it?" and "where did life come from?" meant that I ... prayed that I wouldn't make a fool out of myself in the classroom. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... ) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace ... negotiations during meetings, but I really feel like I'm in my element in it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  this: I bet you can hear his eyes rolling in disgust (another little ... ) doodads to share life at MIT in new ways. * This is not actually true. I ... A few weeks ago I sent out the call for new bloggers. We had quite a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes ... accepting it. Here's how things played out: I woke up on Sunday morning with ... say that I was not in a pleasant mood after reading it. I'll accept that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I ... event, and "How Many Feet Can You Eat" Subway eating event.  But I still ... many times as they could.  I couldn't participate in running this year

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  . For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right ... officially a member of the RA pool. Should I send in extra materials? You ... updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT ... soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn ... than any other event I went to. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very similar. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been working hard since May 1 to determine how many

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010