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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or ... balloon rides were offered across the city on Saturday afternoon. And boy

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  all 50 states, 63 countries, and nearly 900 different high schools ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep hitting ignore and ignore and ignore until i actually need to deal with it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star, video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon ... Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through the 2A program, and ... Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  's confident that the proteins would be ripped apart and rendered harmless by such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to ... back to animals. Appel assumed that the United States, like most modern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  Institute of Technology." We were very impressed by this, and I personally ... seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] Joseph Hooker, Massachusetts State House (and the Sacred Cod ... Central Square last spring. I only had one pencil drawing and literally ... every so often and do whatever I wanted with the source material. Anyway

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  state of New Hampshire's greatest, and most revered, cultural practice ... importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like ... the area of the face located below the nose and above the upper lip. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... season with Alex S. '13, who was here to represent Boeing, Irina O. '15 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  cynicism related to one's job; and c) reduced professional efficacy. Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not ... important things to write about. And, with the summer, I have more time: not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... , but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They ... and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  everyone around me is stressed and apprehensive - sorry, friends. But really ... came after 6th, and of course, college after 12th. College. Something so important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Institute was quite literally like no other place on Earth. All I did was listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and ... current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008