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  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  ... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... a few lectures at MIT in the Spring of 2003 before disappearing back ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  representing MIT (well, and the nation of Belize) at WorldMUN. Should be quite ... "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  of teaching at MIT as well! I’ve been a TA for Single-Variable and ... at the end of Junior Year, but the people are what made me stay ... great ;-;. They gave me an Anya “heh” shirt at the end of the semester as

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats ... . Students with a multitude of interest and involvement in the arts at MIT will

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... coworkers and suddenly had a vision of him at age thirty, still at Dropbox ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... been a bit of a track star at MIT, and I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told him that it made me feel like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... )" feature at the bottom of the page to gather some audience input about which ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  lot of moments at MIT that remind me of how different this school is ... debater at heart :') the nuances of this are complex and deserve another ... , at this stage of my life lol."]feed the hyper-competitive part of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... any customers. One day, independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  formulas. At MIT, you would get a more condensed summary of this theory, but ... [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Burton-Conner with loads of wash. Mitra used to say freshman year that at ... student center and cowered in fear of the terrible results. And at that ... 's just one more thing I just thought of yesterday: laundry. Where are the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the ... that extend outward to the campus. The ovoid space at the intersection of ... killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can ... rule of thumb is: imagine that someone at a family reunion — a cousin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... 'burbs at the base of a mountain. Or wild turkeys. Actually, I almost got ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008