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  RA Selection Day 7

  

  Institute of Technology, taking advantage of multiple unique views of black ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... remember" is lead author of an upcoming paper announcing the discovery of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with ... bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my ... create a map of what influenced those opinions that I had a better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  of sheep An om of the universe…   But that om stands still in my ... enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly ... cold, their thorough line of reasoning being that coats made one less

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  So I'm sick right now. Again. It's some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  University of Florida. Tim Tebow could easily be known as the wunderkind who ... friend Steve '11 (freshman ex-roommate) was reminded of the story of Tim ... I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional ... down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  – creator of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and veteran of the music technology ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  lines of how machine learning, to some degree, is all about learning ... one of the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center programs ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... it that time of year already? What was going wrong with me? I went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  degree of proficiency once they're here. Personally, I'm not really all ... The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ’s mission to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to work ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and Regular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... geographers — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  , plays a "key role in the development of modern technology and science"? ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... of the hallway during rush hour.   When the MBTA bus finally

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022