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  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... might add, yeah me :-) I already knew where everything was. Sure, I kept ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  (when did that happen?!), so we frosh can finally declare a major. I ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  't find secluded green spots where you can sit and enjoy life. You shouldn ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... .) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are telling me I should double major in Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  ’t slack off but can get away with occasionally skipping class, I’m learning ... , scheduling was tight. Along those lines, in class, in clubs, in rooms, I often ... scaled a few walls, all very run of the mill. I found sisters I can wake up

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  ’t a single set in the whole board - though I hope you had a merry chase ... force this in Python pretty easily." Jeff: "Are you sure? I don’t think it ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... Was Here. It goes: But I love you more than words can say I can't count ... you more than words can say I wrote it because I didn't feel "sad enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each ... medical facility where he can get it done is the local county hospital due ... had a scheduled referral at the county hospital, where she sat in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  visceral. human rights abuses happen in silence; technology can help us break ... important -- where do data and technology fit into that system? how can we use ... part in something greater. Where we were no longer afraid. Social media

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ) getting an early start. And that’s where the OME comes in! The Office of ... , come term, doubles as a support group during term where you can send out ... I have more to ask of you? Well, you can do one (or more) of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... : Floor in Popular Science? Hi – I’m an editor at Popular Science and I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  points out, where else can you teach at the #1 program in Computer Science ... Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... user’s body. It does this in real time and can handle multiple users. The ... used in a myriad of applications. As you can see, the papers we read in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  constraints (needing to get all my units in so I can graduate)!! Some stats ... delivered on that front. I’ve never stared at VSCode so much in my life. 6 ... internet we all take for granted. I also learned (somewhat) how to code in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in ... seems different. I approached all those projects with the idea that we can

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  : What can I say? There are few topics as important as this. Meanwhile, in ... problems. Matt notes: I'm pretty excited about the new major in Biological ... of great wars in the future. Historical cases include World War I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005