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Blog / MIT Life
These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.
out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... ,312 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2023. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...
Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals, have come from the "pirate sports" of rowing, sailing, fencing and rifle -
Blog / MIT Life
Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…
One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “ ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue -
Blog / Admissions
You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)
mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice ... a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So -
Blog / Admissions
Share the joy
've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about that.] I hope you'll find those really cool juniors (members of the high school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind -
Blog / Athletics
Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~
, it do be bad now. This form (both of its parts) has a lot of 90 degree ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... (tennis)"]organized sports teams/clubs.[/annotation] This hope of exploring -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…
" degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then -
Blog / About Decisions
On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.
into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as ... years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"
back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I couldn't have done it without all your help. I feel kind of guilty begging ... ! $100! One of my charms is that I have absolutely no responsibility when -
Blog / About Decisions
[Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27
, Leeward Community College, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, I had ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any -
Blog / Academics & Research
Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!
life and the universe instead of vector cross products and tumor ... Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.
's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about -
Blog / Athletics
A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.
third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print -
Blog / IAP
The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!
developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.
, rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ... , art, and technology all coming together in harmony - MIT students at -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret
and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my -
Blog / Athletics
[Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24
This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if -
Blog / Academics & Research
Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.
process is a combinination of nature and technology, as illustrated in part ... meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Boy and girl combine their knowledge of ... accessories. OK, so maybe it′s not that common of a story. Regardless, what