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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  University School of Medicine have found that the quarter to half of dyslexic ... or graduate school, when the length and difficulty of assigned readings ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT undergrad experience. A lot of you probably have class rings from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  expected to feel some amount of relief with the ending of the school year. I ... . I used to hate the last day of the school year, almost more than I ... bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  nothing like senior year of high school. There’s nothing like working on ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15 (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2 ... non-work goals! What are yours? Take lots and lots of pictures &

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... new school year with more energy and more wisdom. An opportunity came

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was

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

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  . For all of you medical school hopefuls (yes, the admissions process ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  , which I naively crammed into the Lagrangian instead of kickin' it old-school ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of ... excitement of getting into MIT hasn't totally worn off yet. What's that? You

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  and slips off branches. By senior year of high school, many people have ... feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907 ... using [annotation note="This gives me a lot of nostalgia: https

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the semester but balancing school and writing is hard"] my novel manuscript

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... guaranteed admission, then be one of first to solve this year's HackMIT puzzle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  -ish snowstorm. Of course now school is in full swing and I'm running full-tilt to ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are ... -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006