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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... country, and then a far-off state. Now I’m here, and it’s so much better ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  found out online this year, which in my opinion is far less exciting than ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... high school. Man, the passage of time is a scary thing).

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  Theater pix, I'm a star! If you've seen the Bryan G. Nance show, feel free ... , stay for the late show, tip the waiters and try the veal! See you in a ... the mic in their hand New York, NJ, N.C., VA We on Award Tour with

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize ... competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never responded. Several essays I wrote in application to a particular early

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here's how selection works. We've spent a month reading and crafting great ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  the Powers like robots in a Japanese hospital. And then there is the ... is now a graduate student here pursuing his Master's, also in course 2 ... sinews that make us human. “What is this ‘death’? Is it a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  Carnegie Endowment, a think tank that's based in D.C, studying democratization and governance in China. Given that I'm a twig, it never ceases to amuse me that the other fellow in my program is a certified body builder

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  ," depending on whether a person is eating (essen) or an animal is eating ... you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a ... wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened! Politics is happening! Blogging is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  all, the web address is displayed in a splashy font across the front of ... got a Christmas present from my close friend Adrian. In true Adrian ... is because every Virgin Megastore in the Eastern United States is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... in a team with greg, a junior in mechanical engineering, who has pretty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even ... itself. In my mind, the possibility of “developing a new vision’ in this way could be severely hampered if one is constantly in the act of doing

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  application has entered a black hole. So what really happens between when you ... the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... may know, asking an MIT student what they’re majoring in may result in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an ... . The program is hosting “Deliver,” a hands-on, interactive activity that ... . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  - couldn't be a better location. Also the fact that Boston is such a young ... , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at 7 I've been studying pretty much non-stop. The final is on Monday

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009