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  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library ... to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to ... kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT Class of 2009. Akash, Ben and I had lunch together, and while we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  education back at MIT, and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard ... is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  't have to emerge from this school as an engineer… especially at the cost of ... back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of the most creative analogies I’ve ever heard. I’m at wind ensemble ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... this, you, too, are here, or belong here, one of us, walking at a running ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... use some community sympathy also. :) What? Of course it makes you appear ... remember from the Mario hack entry, I was friends with a bunch of people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... helicopter out of a cargo plane flying at 30,000 ft that would then fly itself ... 's gotten easier, I think I've just gotten a hell of a lot better at doing it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  . Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during ... too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running ... morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... shower at least twice a month. ...but like most stereotypes, it also contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  ) - but of course, I knew what none of them were called at that time. I ... think about the Spanish instruction at MIT? What would 4 weeks of ... and I will come back at night to the caretaker of the apartment

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  was chosen by all the players). I mentioned at the start of this post ... two types of players I couldn't understand at all: those who donated all ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  prepare a poster for the poster session at the end of the summer, but I didn ... song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019