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  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  her research at last summer's RSI was voted one of the top-five papers ... Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the communications team here at the admissions office, plus graduating senior bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  winter break. So I booked the ticket and that was the end of it. Or at ... *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  this is that not receiving an offer of admission does not make an ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  of their own. And when offered an opportunity to come out of the ... so many of their friends and classmates, also dream to study at MIT. ... rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... own adventure, and there are an infinity of options to choose from ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  those of us who faint at the sight of blood, there are lots of other ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and whirlwind-feeling, but also sometimes very slow and dragging all at the same

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... came to claim their diplomas, I lost track of my friends as I was taking ... front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  fever. You have an excuse if you're like Brandon '11, who's from Colorado ... watching 230-lb guys (who can also throw a ball at 99 mph) Irish step dancing in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  nature of these photographs.) Since eating seafood at an overpriced ... the way down, we wanted to stop at the restaurant (Top of the Needle ... Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  of the links at the bottom of this entry, and rest assured that almost ... -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... E. Chemical Engineering, or Course 10, is sort of at the intersection, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  up and sending each other snapchats of food and scenery. so i'm at ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  has been owning at life lately and winning tons of awards...more about ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... 'm hosed beyond all imagining, but as it's basically my LAST WEEK AT MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... quit. Valuing becoming better means saying yes to projects at the edge of ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  like her.  Class of 2014: Tom R. comes from Colorado and now ... - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  healthy! My program has at least three hours of lecture every day and the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  be afraid at all. But I am alone, and thinking of [annotation note ... typed away at the back of an empty cafe. "Coffee is the drug I’ve been ... vast number of edits to come… (at least the dark [a section of the book

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022