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  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free ... find the description (or even the entire course) online. So, instead of describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... submission.** The director gave her the job instantly. *limnology: the study of ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... Garten, the incomparable host of TV's Barefoot Contessa, was coming to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... , the disappointing reality of many internships. But the more

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work ... minds. Well, let’s have a tour of the clean, organized and happy version ... Plan. B. I like that these pictures are some of the first things I see

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  '10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... ." Rich's side of the room, opposite the feng shui tea shelf, contains his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018