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• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... unremarkable day. It’s the middle of the school week. Adults are adrift at work ... ’re all at risk of dying at any point, from disease, from an electrical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... from working at the hospital, I’ve also made a couple trips out of ... . At every second, I’m reminded of how lucky I am. Doctor Sivaraj, with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  of admission at top colleges. The emergence of the "national student ... the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... . Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1902. Adam Riess as a freshman at ... at the end of 1994, where Adam Riess was to play a crucial role. The ... . Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  at MIT is because the people who can do this kind of work take an idea ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... Tonight, I'll post the first of the reports back from this week ... comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... something with them instead of just letting them collect dust at the bottom of ... !"]UROPing[/annotation] at for 2 years, and he's the main feature of the study that I'm running

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -system-simulating nerds. I've run into a lot of people, both at and outside of MIT, who say ... did for class at the end of last semester, but I'm going to put it here ... a solar system, as an academic exercise. Meanwhile at home: Anyway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  As you know, MIT regular action admissions decisions will be released on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT). Some of you, though, may be wondering -- what's the deal with Tau? Well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  of Admissions. Such requests are usually granted (indeed, often ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  beach to watch the sunset on. 20 minutes of driving later, we arrived at ... to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish. our journey started at a Starbucks drive-through, where someone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  a rain of pastries. Or the secret to being good at and/or actually ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... , "Each year, bleary-eyed students wake up early to be at the head of the ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  towards the exit. I was fed up with Paris at the end of it all. Though I ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with ... , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  of Mount Rainier. The larger meadow at the top of the mountain felt ... -up rock of the mountain--gray, rusty read, even turquoise in places. At one ... I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  plan, at the start of my junior year, I  scheduled 6.0002 for senior fall ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020