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  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  undergrad institution with one of those friends back in high school and ... my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... different from most other universities where you register several weeks or ... to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was ... students from MIT, Harvard University, and Wellesley College.[/caption] One ... , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to ... conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... call with the president of Mizan-Tepi University, and clarified some ... , so I missed a good deal before and after winter break. I wrote and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... feet. I had never snowboarded before and the last time I skiied was ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate ... junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note="an important distinction is between the greater boston area and boston the city

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... possibility. Opportunity. Another future opened itself to me, sparkly and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , collected from my agenda, and others have “fake” data, collected from my memories ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Sloan fellows to Singapore University of Technology and Design undergrads ... blogosphere. The MIT+K12 Videos Program is managed (and executive produced) by ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  has developed for itself a spirit and a culture that no university can ... Institution - MIT is so rife with culture and inside references that only alumni ... almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... . Even then, I imagined completing an aerospace engineering degree and then

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  mens et manus: mind and hand. It is a message stating that we don’t only ... university President, casually request an interview, and then get a response ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  United States and the largest university library and largest private ... On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  are also from lots of different states and ethnic backgrounds. Once, the ... 7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006