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  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  engineering and applied international studies. You'll know at the end of the ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... , exploring new territory, seeing new sights, and eventually having their skulls

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  or a vapid deferral offers no reward for many years of hard work. But ... This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... . This is understandable behavior. The past few months of your life were

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  assignment at the end of term where you have to meet with the corresponding ... waking up early is completely gone. I'll usually glance over at my pile of ... > 3:00pm Getting Serious At this point all the feelings of productivity

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this ... , ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for ... (EST). Start thinking of questions you might have for actual MIT students ... student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. Don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  common than just their looks. They're also graduating at the top of their ... not to be afraid to try new things. "You should explore all of the ... be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Community School of Naples' Field

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... , Research, Art, Architecture, and Sports). Now, this isn't new. Actually, we ... working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  at how the role of the onlooker has changed over time in different ... it working. You can see my final projects at the end of this blog ... heading to a cabin in New Hampshire at 5 that day. It was...a tad bit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school ... this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  I hate New England. No really, I do. Ask anyone who's had the ... weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... looked at that first drop, I felt genuinely scared of a coaster for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  , clubbing at some of Vegas' most fashionable nightspots, and just hanging out ... may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the ... you get when writing the date on the first assignment of the new year ... ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  space where I could take risks and try my hand at a new craft without too ... dexterity, for getting out of a rut. I have a new confidence and a better ... Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  through the bottom of the ornament, but if you squint at the dark blue one ... ! :) Here's a photo of the bench you work at while making things; I didn ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017