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  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to me. He says 'hi.' lol...) But today, I wanted to make some time and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  strange from time to time) so I strung all the bits of it together for you ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... time that feels like it's being wasted. As such, I decided to take most

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading ... Juan Salvador Acosta. (You guys should write to Matt and tell him to join

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... . Right now, I have the chance to take D-Lab II. This class focuses less on ... awesome. We have 15 to choose from, but here are my favorite 6: 1) Turning

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... pedagogy together, there are tractable issues to solve in existing online ... Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload similar to my organic chemistry overload last year. **FLASHBACK** Last ... FORWARD TO TIME PRESENT** So this week, it wasn't organic chemistry as much

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  , and 3. Stich the frames back together in the video. To do step 1, I ... Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  apart but they make opportunities to visit each other, vacation together ... goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a ... , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep ... past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good ... goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can't tell you how luxurious it is to wonder what I should be doing right now

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18.03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  from these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. We ... ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  sleep last night as I scrambled to put together some last minute stuff for ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008