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  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  next entry will probably be about MIT's School of Architecture + Planning ... just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  , life got harder, and school existed. Recovering one of these lost, sealed ... note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... would typically just dub, ignore, let sink into the crumbling abyss of my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a ... While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an ... -female or all-male suites and whatnot. Many of my friends at other schools don ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  MIT Media Lab, Seamless had a full spectrum of designs on display, from ... designer reclaiming energy. "Solar Vintage" by Elena Corchero consists of a ... Project Runway. While a gaggle of middle school girls sitting in front of me

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  in the lab. Designing nanoparticles for cancer imaging is the name of ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  % Number of different high schools represented: 848 Just For Fun Most ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  's offered in terms of back stage work for freshman. Also, are students allowed ... -up. ------------------------------------- Prashant wrote: "I know there are many different international schooling systems that you guys have to consider...But among indian school systems (I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• 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.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  : many iterations of the mold design, the optimizing of temperatures, times ... design, and has also taught me to be skeptical of anything that involves ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... enormously rewarding. After we all gather around the table, Marilee offers ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  ="admittedly, this was partially by choice… I still hadn’t gotten out of my high school ... assignments designed to take about ten hours each to complete. At the end of ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... rankings or someone else's list of "best" colleges. A school missing from ... 's definition of a "good" school. Certainly there were schools I liked more than

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  People often seem to think that going to an elite school, particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005