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  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  was always my favorite aspect of high school physics and nothing has ... Two weeks of class have already flown by. Problem sets are perpetual ... credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was, of ... I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... 'm thinking of you and the family. I'm thankful for all the new people I've met

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... of the bottom quadrants of my face, the dentist leans over and does ... kind of elaborate hoax in which they put tubes and drills and silver

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Name: Bryan G. Nance Job title: Director of Minority Recruiting Hometown: Queens, NY High schools: Benjamin N. Cardozo (Bayside, NY) and ... University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  The Last Supper, but never got around to it due to the stress of school ... collected in high school hang proudly on the walls instead. Some of the ... that are much too feminine for my tastes now, an abundance of school

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  my First Year. My First Year Out Of School. I worked part-time for ... extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  . I mean, from one perspective, I could say that the point of school is ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in high school–the one who excelled in classes, or juggled impressive ... “smart” friend was a piece of our identities, a point of pride, even. Maybe

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  stop is within walking distance from the Berklee School of Music and a ... beginning of the school year for dinner. (As I checked out their website, I ... that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  .  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible.  You ... the middle of The Metropolitan Museum. I flip through your zine about

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  the information session for visiting high school juniors & ... , 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in ... :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend Shana once said, I like excerpts. They're like snapshots of some element

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no ... of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester ... minute video essay of a close reading analysis of a Triple-A game. A Triple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  middle of high school, however, there was a point at which I kind of ... accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010