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  Off to Zambia

  

  -Lab Zambia group installed solar panels on the roof of Mwape's primary school ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... ) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown: Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University ... and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  and stuff), I'm somewhat fond of my high school work. I mean, it's still ... Heyo everyone! It's Mimi again! I recently became a member of MIT's Educational Studies Program, a student group that runs a variety of educational

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction ... , Wendy's High School Heisman) Volunteering (e.g. Prudential Spirit of ... One new section of our application this year distinguishes between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  were three of us: one of us is going to grad school in the fall, and another one of us was in the process of applying to grad schools, and then there was me. there was a decent amount of talk about math grad school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... something in MIT's favor: even though we have 41 varsity sports, and ~20% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... , I work through my supply of rice noodle packs that I got from ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my first day of web.lab, i received an email letting me know that i had been ... feel adequately busy this IAP, but i still have enough time to hang out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that my Sundays have been renamed “Day of 6.009 Office Hours.” 6

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Gucci to task for suing Dapper Dan out of business and then snatching up ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... multibillion-dollar-a-year business," he says. "They must know what they're doing ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... institutions, governments, businesses, NGOs, and individuals are addressing the ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... of hydrocarbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles on increasing diffusivity ... letter at the end of this week. Best Regards Birgit Heil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  tries to cling on to the crumbling remnants of their high school success ... of high school, and I now understand textbook biology thoroughly enough ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  you probably should if you ever want to go to medical school instead of ... popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... Florida for a week. We saw a high school friend one of the days and in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  's radio station; was part of "Pippin," the school musical; is in the school ... office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... relationship with schooling as “unconventional” nor do I think of myself as an ... expectations of school have never quite made sense to me, it’s more productive to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023