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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  was way too much to handle, especially because my course load was so ... little... hypocritical, I know. But it happens. It's very easy to get sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient advice to give. But I really think Ms. Frizzle summed it up best when she

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging ... plan to send out any admissions decisions by mail, though admitted

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments. Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... deep applicant pool, combined with a commitment to maintaining equity ... applicants were admitted. An additional 3,893 applicants were deferred to

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of ... .004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the

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

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow are for. I have to say, it's going fast. When I applied to MIT and got in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND IS JUST A TEASE FOR WHATS COMING TONIGHT. SIX TO 12 INCHES IS FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim ... . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... it comes to money. If I have it, I spend it. Ask anybody who lives with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to ... rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... 's Day loong weekend to NYC* yayay so excited) -What the heck was going on ... to). -My Spring 2008 Classes (did you know we only have 18 school days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school ... can call our office at 617-253-3400 to see if we have them. What if we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007