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  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  arts colleges. Two of them were safety state schools. I would have gone ... day, in April, I got a thin envelope in the mail from this school. It ... better. I know that the admissions officers at this school care. I know how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I ... really considered in admissions (I didn't even send in my scores until this ... AP exams than I ever did at prom, or, y'know, in my life.) This might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  ever get more interested in wine I’ll try them out. [caption id ... into the fumet. I wasn’t sure what to expect. In retrospect, since ... but in brothy fish form, maybe I should have known that I’d love it (it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  -O-N-E. I began thinking of how I would explain this to everybody, but instead ... without Winnie the bloggers would be wandering around in a confused daze ... the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  . This was originally how I got so good at Isaac, where I would just watch ... to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... so long, you start realizing the patterns in how mapped out and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  distance of the bridge so they’d know exactly “how long it would take to get ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this ... dozen times in several disorienting patterns of color.  As I wander

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  important to you. That said, you're probably wondering why I would expose ... between work and fun, and I would think that's true for most students here ... they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  crops. I didn't notice the stick models in the flowers at first; it would ... I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

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

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact, although I was tempted to plan out exactly how I would spend every moment of the weekend, I was pretty sure that it would be fun to just improvise

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... thought that maybe scotch tape would be a better adhesive in this situation ... , which came all wrapped up in a bow. I took it apart and found each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... like it was silly to limit what sorts of classes and activities I did in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  (er) effort. Cons: I don't really know how much I would gain from this class. I ... keep that in mind. I also would like to stay under 54 units. I'm already ... 've compiled that I have some interest in taking and you, dear reader, are going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . However, if you are offered an interview, I would recommend you take it. Not ... indication of how well you did. I want to stress again that this is just a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... paper-hungry but not with regards to money, but to how many journals I can

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... blogged about, unfortunately in the same entry in which I posted a really ... of which I decided to avail myself while preparing for my class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008