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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  and is spreading at a rate of 28 to 100 kilometers a year. Even the ... currently over 1000 axolotls in captivity at the University of Kentucky ... used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  understand a complex piece of art all at once, so we pick a specific message to ... skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  friends of mine to the Arnold Arboretum, all the way out at the end of the ... Arboretum, we headed into town; some of our group had vaccine appointments at ... the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term ... vectors at a point in a surface are given by derivatives of curves lying on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• 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 / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  . My mom looked at the caller ID and said, "Oh look it's an out of state ... steps of lobby 7 and realize that I'm at MIT. This year, I've had the ... about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• 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