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  The mail, and more

  

  with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... is best to mail supplemental music/art/etc. to us on a CD. I'm told

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents ... Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... sources tell me that D residents have a similar vibe to B and F, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... ? Can a civilization be healed? Can damage to hateful souls--the rot that ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this ... ), and the freedom to randomly call up a friend to chat, without worrying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum loaded to the brim with Advanced Placement courses—with no regard to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice ... positions. I've always put my election to these roles up to a couple of very ... "a leader," i.e., someone who has the people skills to make sure

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... ) website. In regards to Harry Potter, I secretly still want to be a ... , always imagined myself as a Slytherin in the times I do go to Hogwarts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... . Anyone know an eight-letter word having to do with the location of M*A ... early action decisions. SIX DAYS! Six days! Man, that's a short time. When

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

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  never a large number due to the fact that I moved quite often so, I never ... the exact same when I came to MIT. I would have a good amount of friends ... New House, and you walk up to it like oh this seems like a nice building

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  really refreshing break from MIT, and I think this is a really cool way to ... how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case someone from Spain is reading this, allow me to say that you have one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to ... even year-to-year, but instead every four years. That a year ago will ... 's lives to feel like there are a million possibilities, and I feel like I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  , especially when it comes to something as important as finances. Is the reply ... it's also important to note that MIT actually has three bioengineering ... already, but wanted to inquire a bit about the pre-law track. From what I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  turbine pumps water out of a storage volume anchored to the seabed. ORES ... as a way to lighten soldiers’ loads. Professor Belcher is a materials ... life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as Professor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a little adventure? I’ve been wanting to do a blog showcasing MIT’s many athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my ... awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it was important to incorporate nature and color imagery.  Fiction was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... country? Yes! Well technically it's a principality, or according to ... recently moved to a new, modernized building with a lot of neat technology

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019