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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  programs and activities, for-credit visual arts/music/theater arts classes, non-credit Student Art Association classes, and opportunities for cross ... on the second floor of the Student Center, the central point for

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  [by Leila Kinney, Administrator for Academic Programs, Comparative ... , particularly for young people, in formal and informal educational settings ... descriptive tags for these activities signal the extent of experimentation, as

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for ... chipmunk preparing for a very grueling natural disaster. Anyway.) Our service

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  with Michael about his vision for the next generation of college campus ... school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  Next Saturday, October 20th, is the deadline for Early Action applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular action, you may want to set that interview up pretty soon as well). For MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the night before. My clothes were laid out for me, my lunch would be packed ... changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for ... . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at Charles Herbert Flowers High School started applying for scholarships early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... about biomedical ethics. It wasn't a bad concentration, but it's tough for ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... cellular, molecular, and developmental biology, so no ecology classes for me ... sleep statistics for other variables. Definitely. I tried to look at hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... frequency. We get paid for each post we write, according to the number of hours we spent writing it -- for me, that's usually two or three hours

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... their crusty career fair t-shirts for suits and gowns.  As I prepared to ... making longer stitches, which would be required for a fancy dress, I tried

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars ... for Undergraduates) SENIOR FALL 8.033 (Relativity) 8.287 (Astronomy Lab ... 't know of a better expression for this than "experimental physics boot camp

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... -specific. If, for example, you lived at Simmons, you could eat breakfast there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... Vibrations (8.03): Required for major, will keep. -Special Relativity (8 ... grapes for dinner. Twice. -20th Century Composition Techniques: I stumbled

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... group decision. Don't settle for a satisfactory living group when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... 'm no longer UAVP. I wrote a column for the Tech, with a lot of emotional ... comes out for Commencement. So I decided, why not publish it here? My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... less hectic) season, but it allows some time for deep thinking about what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005