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  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our ... topics. For the best source of information, please visit web ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... ", Texas whereby "Suburbia" I mean for my first year of high school, I lived in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... official school profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... plenty of not-for-credit offerings that usually amount to single sessions ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  kinds of opportunities MIT offers – and these only to a local high school ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  the size of half a penny. Once you see this and determined that most of ... a condensed "sauce" at the bottom of the skillet. Remove the chicken ... portion of the sauce and add water or just boil/stir-fry the vegetables

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor ... to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner. But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... 'Belle and Sebastian University.' I was like, 'Belle and Sebastian! Awesome ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018