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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... size of our international audience, I thought I might take a few minutes ... just watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, another staple of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  feel at home. A large group of strangers might wander into your suite and ... don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . Thank you for saying that. At the end of my junior year of high school one ... , I am here until 5PM M/T/W of this week (although not always at my desk ... at mit dot edu. I trust you can rearrange the anti-spam wording of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of ... enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need ... required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... switched at birth.) Tomorrow, Mom is going to come to 5.60 (chemical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of ... back from Pennsylvania at the start of the semester. She made the trip ... . My room is at the end of a hallway that includes the most commonly used

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  needed to be at MIT. Matt McGann was the host of the info session and he ... opinion, I was not a blog stalker at this point. I read a couple of the ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at ... writing it, of course, which at this rate will probably be two years from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  the brink of the end of my time here at the Gymnasium, and there are a ... creeping over the steeple of the church as I arrive at school. 4. I will ... since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out that most of the team members had a better chance of "owning" an NFL team
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  friend says that at the beginning of a program, he looks at the awards they ... that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other (it ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017