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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack ... Portal Wait, what’s this puzzle you guys keep mentioning? Our puzzle ... all of the puzzle’s components gain automatic admission to HackMIT in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to ... first week. Let’s just say that I’m an unrecognizable skier. I obviously ... Mountain (also Chris Peterson’s home mountain!!!), and we’re on the first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that’s ... sciences. It’s completely undergraduate-run, but produced with support from ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... recommend (and here’s what I said last year): Write your essays before ... character. Describe yourself (see 3). (For more, here’s who MIT wants.) Have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... . Here’s what I found out: Process It might look like I am sketching cows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  homepage. I’d encourage you all to watch it if you’re interested--it’s pretty ... concept (let’s use integrals as an example). Your teacher talks about ... . Most people get B’s. Some get A’s. Sometimes a lot get A’s. Some get C’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... that you can drop out now. But you know it’s not true. You can’t leave ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  throw things out the window because we think it’s funny, and we’re still ... and then put back together again”, it’s never about a school. it’s about ... find and so gratifying when it’s finally grasped that it makes you feel

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... movement, changed the public’s view of space exploration, and encouraged

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  unintentionally (I'm working on this whole photogenic thing).   P.S. Victory! Beat the Sunday at midnight deadline :) P.S.S. Welcome new ... this year! P.S.S.S. I don't know why YouTube isn't letting me pick a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  roasted apartment in Boston. Fantasies aside, it’s a fact that many MIT ... , read all of the Arthur books, and played Arthur’s Reading Games on the PC ... project I’m working on at WGBH is PBS LearningMedia, which is PBS and WGBH’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  . “This line is for the Melancholia film screening. It’s by ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the ... sequence (a la Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life) set to Wagner’s

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  since CPW/orientation days, and it’s always been between China and France ... architecture department at Tsinghua University (colloquially called China’s MIT ... finding authenticity – the feeling of being in a completely different world...that’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  conductor. He’s very fun, energetic, and he comes up with the most ... now, you’re sleeping on a water mattress- only, it’s frozen ... director. He’s very professional, patient, and supportive. He pays

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  the grime of the day. The showering is the easy part, though-it’s the ... (actually, I don’t. But it’s the principle...). That’s where Maggie’s ... ....Just click here to begin! This Saturday we put Maggie’s system to the test, as

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... ,000,000 minutes of getting-fit-@-MIT. Those are some big numbers. It’s easy to see ... hopping on the “Wooo! Let’s get fit!” bandwagon. When Molly first sent out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , 2009 It’s very parents dream... for their child to graduate high ... ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story. Augusta, GA—It’s packing day for 17-year-old Terence Dalbert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009