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  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island ... Nations International School, then uptown to Hunter College High School, the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  post, and four times fifty is two hundred."]post title ... its first theme: a treasure hunt on Captain Red Herring's Mystery Island ... first one with [annotation note="In early Hunts, the plot had two points

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... twenty-some books, most of which I still have not [annotation note="Two ... always coffee shop (write), run, drive, but getting two of these done was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days ... lack the oxygen that was so often taken for granted. There were two types ... call I had gotten two days earlier, teasing me with the idea that I might

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  sandwiched between two tortillas and surrounded by islands of sour cream and ... Grey's Anatomy after you've had the worst two exams of your life and are ... turkey, Steph and Melinda brought two kinds of stuffing, Lauren made

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  "innovation" as their highest-weighted judging criterion. A national science ... maintainer. I'm graduating in two months. Did I leave my mark on MIT as a ... C. '26, Diana S. '25, Julia C. '25, Lumia N. '24, and the many, many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

   click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two ... , I jumped on board. So for summer 2013, I served as a National Expansion Coordinator. The middle school program had just gone national for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J. '20 and Nadine E. '22. The goal was to reach n=13! That's 8,192 cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Last December, I wrote Two thousand students walk into MIT, a blog ... one or two people," Emily C. '22 told me, when we talked about directing ... short, two-minute sample of their class. Interviews took around 20 minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  than others it wasn't as if I was about to vote one off of the island ... tough retrosynthetic analyses. Two weeks into my strictly-course-5

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  still form functional tissue. We filmed my video over the course of two ... of jawbreakers. 1 hour and 4 stores later (La Verdes, Shaws, CVS, and ... Meeting a pizza guy and bringing food upstairs The last two were probably

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  guy getting his bagel from LaVerdes could be a MacArthur fellow, whose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... skiier since he was thirteen -- at the time he applied, he was nationally ... test scores, or research experience, or being a National AP Scholar, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’m taking only one technical course and two humanities courses. That’s because ... a UROP on the DCP team at the Media Lab has really helped (those two ... wasn’t stressed out about the first two, because my eyes were always set

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is ... two times I took the Green Line to the end, because that’s technically a ... Boston T. For my first two years at MIT, this bridge had been partially

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  -state orchestra,[/annotation] qualify for National Science Bowl for four consecutive ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... last two years of high school, I ended up coming out to a lot of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two of the students from this post are from the Middle East and two are ... , highlighting his popularity, there were two obituaries about him published in one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two ... ’s floor, creating both a tripping hazard and a gloriously effective slip-n

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  College Confidential results threads from the past n years into an Excel ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012