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  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  of the most competitive public high schools in the city. Because she was used to being at the top of her class, the transition to high school ... 'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... high school. A semester of MIT taught me what twelve years of public ... of my class at OSU to get into the grad schools I got into this year. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you ... fruit, what kind of fruit would it be? 3) What is the most appropriate

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the ... all 120 of them.   III. September 17, 2022. Saturday morning

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In between all of this, it's begun to hit me that I am now officially more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed ... 're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  THERE. Like, right out my window. For two-thirds of you, it's just going to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge. The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  warm weather, and finally, the cost of real estate. I declined an offer ... cluster that's deliciously quiet and empty at this time of night. :-) Okay, as we leave, we enter a hallway... at the end of which lies a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we'll have 400 people in Monta Vista High School's auditorium in Cupertino, CA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  “Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... wait, it’s about digital musical instrument design, not like

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  of the windows were black. But this was on the side of the building: What? All 20 of us - 10 upperclassmen and 10 freshmen - froze. A laser ... projector, and a computer. One of our freshmen started shrieking "DRAW A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  of his aero/astro senior project; course 16 students propose, design ... into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture ... by Saturday night, but we really didn't clean out all of the boxes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of ... just the first day of Charm School!  Friday's the main event, with five ... Before Charm School: [shouts across the room]  "Yo, you've got some

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  experience. Sure, there are a half-dozen people at each of the schools I ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  think of that first?!" Credit of course goes to the respective designers ... , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an ... being. Simultaneously, though, loneliness was a big part of my high school

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022