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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a ... photos from the entire event (and you should go click that, since I had to ... W. '16, is a project that explores the modern fad in personal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  antiques, books, and CDs. Cambridge is a hip, progressive city with the feel ... on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  finally say I’ve drunk from the firehose and tasted it vicious glory; there’s ... diverted my attention and ended up writing poetry! I used to do this all the ... energy? The nice thing is that I don’t really care if it’s good or not. I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  and you were the first to do so, I said that I will have a little ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that ... last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... my ticket validated for the next day and hopped in a taxi bound for my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  significant. And the final pedantic message: MIT is hard. Life is hard. A ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  to have a picnic on that Saturday. Because to us, a 760 math is the ... moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... impact on me that the student had "the magic 1600." Yes, scoring a 1600 is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  this class. For many there is a perception that the only way to increase diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges/Universities, but that is not the case at MIT. Everyone had to withstand close

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my ... bloggers will fill in the story. And there are two tributes to old friends ... 're the guy who writes updates and stats about the class." That isn't who I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a ... someday? I'm going up to the Tampa session on the 16th, but that's a four ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter ... after a bit, that commotion died down, And I went back to physics and ... , and all through the ‘tute, You would think that the students had all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  challenging and interesting because it is the perfect sweet spot between a novel and a movie. Everything really has to have a purpose because there are ... college career. There's a part of me that wishes I had forgone the computer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... across a Japanese phrase that is difficult to translate into English yet ... melancholy that somehow nips at me in the physical form that is cold wind and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  believed that there was a way to live [annotation note="I've dropped two full ... ."]acapella[/annotation] groups, only to receive a callback from just one—the Asymptones. At the ... feeling was that I was not good enough, and, at a school where I already

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so ... the gun that could connect to the motors. There were two motors inside of it, a pusher motor that pushes the next dart in and the flywheel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  a selfie stick to a clamp. that is partially true. but among the ... him. so we went back to the drawing board... and hacked together a ... defaulting to the familiar, and assistive technology is one area where in most

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  about the world that is intrinsic to physics." Goodman enrolled in the ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never considered -- teaching physics at a high school level. That would allow me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... , which is actually a great time to start studying: far enough advance that ... definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your ... from all over campus, and the dorms that offered RBA were not necessarily

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  have with the final design is that the iTOL tree didn't add a label for ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... tree – A diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships between

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023