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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  Bloggers for bloggers. Until that point, a lot of bloggers never crossed ... redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... ring circus, except instead of elephants,it's nerds; acrobats, calculus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the ... . With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult ... difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had come! You all have met Alina, one of our newest bloggers. Well, I first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... dying of hunger) feta chicken, and our friend Mark '07 manned the grill ... actually do make some regular hot dogs now, but that's only because of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since ... the duals portion of his competition, and would have won first in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in a fresh layer of panic, bolted outside in 40-degree wind chill, ran ... Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... disappoints. 7:30pm–8:45pm Official Welcome for Parents. Perhaps one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  MIT's campus complete with video clips and 360-degree panoramas of ... ...so bear with me. Me working on one of my planes There are a few constants ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering students will be equipped to handle upper level classes. But instead of ... the engine is only half of the process. The machining is divided between

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... --his high school math teacher dated Amber Brkich. That was kind of exciting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for ... without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... every hour of the weekend, causing even the most fervent Course 8

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  science aspect of my degree altogether and dedicated myself to sociology ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  explanation of, and degree requirements for, a Bachelor’s of Science in Food ... my psets by reading old MIT News articles. One of these stories featured [annotation note='Prescott eventually became the founding Dean of

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026