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  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... . It's the school he wanted to go to when he first came to America ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  doesn't really compared to being the wide-eyed first year who first heard of mit through mystery hunt, getting to participate in it for the first ... heart / when i kept it from you. i've never been able to connect the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... Sciences; used to refer to any non-technical class. "I'm taking .006, 18

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  took the first bite and didn't transcend to a higher flavor dimension ... other. I'd gone to the Flour on Mass Ave before, but this was my first ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey."]Dear {{FIRST ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  First off: The Tech ran an article about our site redesign ... immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of ... of MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics, and asked her to do some physics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of ... I don't have a pair of cat ears to wear." See? Isn't that so much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... . Massachusetts Avenue, so often clogged with cars, was transformed. It belonged to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the ... , but worth watching! Click To Play The CPW Festival The Festival

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first ... out of chemistry or biology, you have to sign up first. If you have AP ... morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  applied to the grad MIT bio program? I hear this is the first year ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  good that I'm actually, for the first time, going to include spoiler ... that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  actually hear Pia's voice, to meet my first person from Wales (Dominique) and ... I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed all of the letters first class, and I hope nearly everyone will have ... over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  . The first was to move across the country to (less sunny than you’d think ... California. For the first few months, I was flying back and forth to the East ... I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  , things may be different too. America is now the first and only country to ... Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  the tab with the movie from our first viewing, so we just rewound to the ... day to the second day."]the first and second day.[/annotation] Paolo ... , Jonathan H. '25, wanted to replicate Austin Weber's legendary video, aptly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022