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  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little ... the number of AP classes; it's about how prepared you are for the

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  post i’ll briefly summarize a few of my favorite readings from the class ... content before teaching it, please take all of the following findings with ... . this time, the study participants worked through a series of cognitive

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  , who performed the third movement of the Dvorak Violin Concerto. It was ... , we accompanied the lively and jazzy voice of our guest artist, Patrice ... @mit) The performance of "Adam and Eve Ballet" was simply naughty! The music

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is ... be considered at the beginning of the early action round - but it will

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... everything the tour guide says, but of course, you'd want to do that anyway

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for every single day. I knew all the genres of stations, and I thought I knew

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  , grey Favorite line of the T: The caves of the green line always makes me feel like I'm at Disneyland Song used as the opening credits of your movie: The Shins's cover of "We Will Become Silhouettes" Favorite

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  : - Have one of my songs used in a major motion picture, or at least on The ... enough THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: - Ukrainian - Italian - Welsh THREE ... - Bryan Nance (only sometimes) THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: - Coffee

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday naps in the sun. My mom had been feeding them some of her chinese cooking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... steady myself. We traded off for the better vantage point a couple of times ... about the first time he was part of the reenactment, in 2001. He had never

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has ... 't help but laugh, because obviously the residents of Simmons were getting a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to ... in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students ... ="Hmm, after writing that sentence I’m starting to realize the contradiction of

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022