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  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to ... first place, because I was definitely too awkward to raise my hand and ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... , you won't get the result you want on your first try, but you have to ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  , my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish ... first stop).  In the weeks before I came to Cambridge, I was driving down ... .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  to conduct yourself in a legal, moral manner away for the first time ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  though 🅰️levator doesn’t go directly to the first floor, it does lead to the basement and multi-purpose room (MPR), which then lead to the first ... Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... explained by watching an example match. But I moved to Nevada after middle

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  -how. That brings me to the first big ingredient: the idea. The idea is ... possible.) The purpose of this message was fivefold. First, I wanted to ... , and operating systems. I’ll be the first to admit that my knowledge of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  ’m hardly the first admissions blogger to discover strength training during ... ’d be more likely to work out a second time if I hyped myself up the first ... are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  the first time ever a few weeks ago in seattle, and i went to another ... summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... going home for Thanksgiving first organized it in 2014. Since then, it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It ... first CPW, too, and I can tell you that the sheer quantity of options is

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010