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• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  music Filipino identity Boeing internship I left out a bit more of ... or fewer) Filipino identity - Essay #4: Describe the world you come ... multitudes.” As the only daughter of a single Filipino mother, my experiences

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  to exchange my piggy bank's coins. Soon enough, we were at the airport

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . The first speaker is Josh Shiode. Josh has a PhD in astronomy from UC ... communicates in two directions: he advocates on behalf of the astronomy community to policymakers, and keeps the astronomy community informed about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  Secret Santa gift exchange. Each resident spends ~$20-$30 on some number of ... of thought to the gift exchange, the following (incomplete) list will ... coin purse A fox plushie (referring to this) A keychain multitool A bread

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  wag mo kaming kalimutan. Maybe it’s a Filipino thing, but there’s this ... happened so often to the Filipino that we feel the urge to say this. Maybe it’s a Filipino thing to say that, but the underlying feelings feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , we talked about Simmons, astronomy, and song lyrics. At night, I danced

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has an established agreement, and both universities exchange students with
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  While I read Paradise Lost, I think about astronomy. I know what you ... means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... astronomy. Here's another one (context: Satan is traveling to Heaven) "Down

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  coins that you can donate. After the money in the fund has been ... . Your objective is to end up with as many coins as possible. Your total coins are calculated from: Adding the remaining coins you have that you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  coin. The winning team then writes the Mystery Hunt the next year. Team ... take the coin, because they wouldn’t want to write hundreds of puzzles ... coin-like object. All of these rules can be subverted, and often a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some ... of my cosmology / astronomy / universe-related textbooks!" with "I call ... some country of my choice to do astronomy research in a new cultural

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  doing Real Space-Related Science at the National Radio Astronomy ... , for fear that this exchange would repeat itself. I wanted to follow ... at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is 100% productive, ALWAYS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  to balance the other side of the coin. I just want you all to know that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  for the educational studies program, and the president of the filipino ... differently two-and-a-half years ago, that if the coin flip landed different and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... will last until the coin is found, probably sometime Sunday. Many teams ... , a new metapuzzle, and a coin hidden somewhere in Simmons Hall. Twenty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  's summer UROP at Jim Elliott's MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory. As most ... 'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... astronomy, then these is a freshman astronomy seminar (see an old entry about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  . Nevertheless, I am but a casual listener. We exchanged our favorite {math, prog ... , the term djent was allegedly coined by the Swedish band Meshuggah as a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  English texts, and the riddles that Bilbo exchanges with Gollum in The ... trying to decide where I want to go. I'm continuing with my astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are ... find faint objects, constellation identification, basic astronomy like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013