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• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  alone, Because sometimes the heart can travel where your voice can’t go ... with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... alone in this pain, and that I really admire each and every one of them

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  they can turn a dollar bill into four quarters? Truly, we live in the ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don ... Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  one of the topics in the class I found most exciting - one about which I ... friend Nick and I were in the student center when we happened to run into ... something cannot change what it fundamentally is; in other words, we can call

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn ... with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the ... school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my ... high school, and I had lead roles in five of them. I made all-state choir

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  when I was eleven), I lived in Georgia, in a suburb of Atlanta where my ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and ... , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... call New York City home. You may know Fabolous from his songs such as "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle ... geothermal energy. No, actually, I have no idea why he keeps this in lab. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math ... , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  how can we cure it?" and "where did life come from?" meant that I ... totally mind-boggling. This whole "weather in which you can actually stand ... prayed that I wouldn't make a fool out of myself in the classroom. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... went to a Burchard Scholars reception, where I identified Prof. Bahr by ... -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  interested in Comparative Media Studies, which is where I earned my graduate ... an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I ... , Elizabeth, and I started spending weekends in the NMC together, recutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I ... so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways...I can't help but wonder if I've been taking advantage of this opportunity. There are two activities in particular that I love doing, that I could

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the ... date on this song makes me more than a little nostalgic. I did a lot in ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  dance is different, and in my eyes, much worse. I can only wonder what ... code. I can't help but miss the way things were in my freshman year ... people in student life administration who are leaving as well. I can only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019