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  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  your applications for early action. Truly. I consider it a privilege to ... . We welcome them to campus, where they will join the similarly ... blogs will stay open for a bit longer for students to continue with the

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  tower where I was was a target. I'm old enough to remember the feeling of ... blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a ... wondering - "is someone going to write a blog post about September 11th today

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... some beautiful flowers growing and a very touching tribute to honor the ... River. This excursion was arranged by a grad student (who happened to work

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to ... allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... for me, this means that I have a ton of data analysis to do. Basically

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog ... Auditorium together, where Premiere was being held at 7:00. We were a little

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... player, once said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it ... , outsource training to machines, and use our time to start mentoring—a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my ... was working on my thesis I put out a call for a UROP to help me collect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... -arts college in New England, where admissions officials had promised to assign ... my help," Mr. Conroy recalls. The young man wanted advice on where to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three ... the Amazon rainforest. What a way to start my spring break! Immediately

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  weekend, a group of hall residents went to see The Martian. It was awesome ... is designing a skintight spacesuit akin to the one in the movie. I ... 'm very excited. Spoiler 2: I might get to speak to a fighter pilot and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... fullest extent. You are sure to find people here who share it and take the ... Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  ridden place. As a child I was always too afraid to go outside when it was ... grades, and after the loss of my Uncle, I started to look to food as a ... normally ate, and started to have a fixation on eating “healthy” foods. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your ... completely foreign to me. I have never assisted at a calving, had my artwork

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... with interspersed micro-problems that were designed to test a student ... transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn ... final robot competition, where students for a single-run showcase on Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  : had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at ... immediately sent to NYC to conduct some school visits. I was so nervous riding the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... ’s last home game of the year and, consequently, Senior Day, a day to ... team, I’m happy to say that I’ve found the same thing here: a second

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... -event pictures in Killian Court, where we will graduate in less than a month. Sniff ... in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... something as you are, and now they all have a chance to follow those passions

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... extensions in a row because the work kept piling up and days where I skipped

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023