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• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave ... for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Updates and Notes Form, which will become available in mid-January on your ... deferred students on Saturday. Because of the competitiveness of our pool ... 2021. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  advice and instructions for deferred students on the blogs soon.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  time popped the tire on the bicycle i'm borrowing (sorry alyssa ... river played guess-the-summer-camp with all the high school students on ... on netflix and suddenly it's august. i'm tired of macgregor's teeny

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  , hackers collaborate and experiment on software and hardware projects. This ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... to *intructions withheld*. Last year, you had to click on the dot in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of ... wilson essay on reconstruction while i was in the waiting room (it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the advanced math education world.* Here's something that's going on: AoPS and ... will discuss preparatory papers. On March 1, we'll release some open

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  have some additional advice and instructions for deferred students on the

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... working on psets in someone else's room, but by then it was Thursday, so it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -frosh, at the CPW of 2012. My host was a rower on the men’s lightweight team ... races on the Charles River that weekend, and admired the eight rowers in ... of practice, a bunch of novices crowded around a bench swing on the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... glide slowly along the planet’s surface. The quivering black dots on the ... , absorbing impromptu lectures on algebra, number theory, and the analogy of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye ... and judge all of the stupidity that ends up on your psets. Don’t admit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  weren't running regularly due to the 3 ft tall piles of snow on Commonwealth that were taking up 2 car lanes. I dropped my backpack on the stairs ... . Looking back on that day, I don't think it was worth all that anxiety and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River ... the first year you're doing it on Kickstarter? Yeah. In the beginning it ... day, he found a toilet on the street a block away from his house. So we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  stuffed animals on the giant bean bag chair I sleep on each night ... me, we cooked a bunch of food so I wouldn't starve, and we went on an ... inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the ... dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  ’m currently planning on taking a summer@future class, Creating Digital Learning ... —MIT alumni gathering on campus to see old friends, reminisce about the good old ... coffeehouse, back in the day when this space on the 3rd floor of the student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014