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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  gender-exclusive ones.) [1] Twenty-two You might be wondering, why 22? All ... ? A purple haze, perhaps? A giant flying squid? -tEp email Two holy ... Epsilon Phi National's official colors"]the color purple

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... . Everyone, every dish you see in this article has been made with my two hands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... weeks. This means usually you can drop a class like literally two weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  filling two buckets with water, one in which we soaked the clothes in ... in cases of strong wind, would unpeg clothes, sending two hours of work ... player and rock out to P-Square and Styl-Plus, two of my favorite Nigerian

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students ... the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... privacy and space, I moved to Tang Hall, leaving Maseeh Hall after two

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... to judge, as I am one of the n00biest coders 'round these parts), but

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  separate the College Board Test Information Card from the two-part Referral ... .I.T. 5. Ask two of your teachers to fill out the EVALUATION OF APPLICANT BY ... . You need not apply for aid from specific funds, such as the National

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... first two or three weeks were easy, and then after that everything changed ... thing today at MIT (and many other colleges across the nation) but I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , right? Right. After two hours of waiting, I made my way to my seat. A lady came out onto the stage, was introduced, and sang the National ... played the same classical music they'd been playing for the last two hours

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... about two weeks before the college guidance counselor came up T: Hey I ... to check on one of two hotel lobby computers, both of which had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  grades. But when I saw those threads filled with national and international ... the chemistry olympiad. But between my almost two-hour commute to and ... ’re young. Take college for instance. If you take two students interested in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  where I’m coming from as I think about this all.) This post has two ... ’ve had about my own decisions. But two, I hope that this post has some ... trajectory of my own life. I am acutely aware of the above two paragraphs as I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  first public health school in the nation The link between cancer and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... do amazing things (including win a National Championship for us

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  of college and I just bought two cheeseburgers from a local gas station ... [/caption] Molly In the heart of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  next two hours reviewing my code, trying to figure out where I had gone ... -level detector which turns the LCD screen turns ON and OFF with two loud claps ... foil to a piece of cardboard for more structure. In between the two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  make you undervalue your (perhaps less-national-news-worthy) achievements ... , and maybe even more across the nation, yelling at me for my apathy, “You ... schools in the nation with rich learning environments and resources, or who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  , Marayna M. '18, Fejiro O. '18, Andrea H. '18, Hannah C. '17, Sade N. '17

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008