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• 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
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... !" I'm not sure how far this goes into convincing skeptics of the truth ... reading. In general, though, I'm a big fan of fantasy, however cheesy and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  plastic. How did this happen? 2.00b, Toy Product Design. I've blogged about it before, here, and I'll probably blog about it again sometime in the ... Plushies in a toy exhibit for several months. I went and visited them a couple

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine ... ' disappointment over the outcome of a game would put them in such a bad mood that ... was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  awake. With bagels, a tea bag and some peanut butter in hand I make the ... productivity packed in a few hours, I'm so glad I was running out of body wash. 1 ... is how I prefer to do it. Go through all of the notes and summarize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014