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  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  and Planning), and a young woman who had studied at the University of ... States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which the boys’ successes get recognized and their talents get directed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... intellectual, ideological, and social cross-pollination. You need diversity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don ... state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that ... return offer after you graduate, and hopefully sponsor your H1B visa. All

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  deception lubricates the societal wheels of Ferrante's universe and make it ... Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure ... and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media" (Cornell University Press), even those trying "faithfully" to represent Shakespeare

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on ... the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and never written, and about 3 weeks between the time I'm done with work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  use MISTI 2.0 as an opportunity to return to my host institute and ... internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of ... state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to ... rejected if they apply again ,,, and another question is what is MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state," as ... intermittent rain and 84 degree weather--almost perfect for a hike the next day ... not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  (defining input and state variables) and write directions that are ... to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... - because they have stories, and they have useful advice, and a sense of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  people, just with snazzy degrees and bulky metal rings. Orientation is more ... completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... gender imbalance in STEM fields, Women’s and Gender Studies offered up a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  post some graduation pictures with some Commencement quotes and call it a post. But now I'm going through these photos and it's making me miss my ... have you guys been up to? Remember to call home and all that, and visit

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47% women). Second, and equally important, admissions personnel should never make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  ? This summer I was looking over my degree requirements and realized I was ... Yo homez, I'm back! And guess what? I'm a senior. I. AM. A. SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  can briefly forget about the things you can't change and focus on the ... , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes and mind. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] it's a rest

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , and across rivers with the MIT Outing Club (MITOC) (4) Eat BLT. The ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about ... -of-the-night conversations about quantum dots and social media strategies. The soggy burritos

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... the tracks a couple of days later; sure enough, there was this: And

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007