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  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  and took this picture. So, as a licensed history teacher in the state ... controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... , East Campus, Senior Haus, and Random Hall are "East" (even though Random

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  optimization and low-level programming languages during my master’s degree, which ... article about Gen Z and the job market. As you can see, the word ... what I remember (please note my memory is faulty and not subject to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  visit a few more out-of-state schools—I’m from Maryland, and didn’t want ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue ... going to open mic sessions and symphony hall performances - if you end up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... -on-one conversations with students about their dreams and aspirations, and I hope that I ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in ... help bring MPG here, in no small part because math is awesome and math girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  to Solid State Chemistry. Professor Don Sadoway, arguably the best and ... (tonight's showings apparently include Gankutsuou 2-3 and Paranoia Agent 1 ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  2005 Research Science Institute (RSI). I arrived here late last evening ... you and your lives. Because I do not work for the CEE or for MITE2S, I ... MIT. My travels frequently mean missing cool events at MIT, and this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  respects: Vice President Joe Biden, MIT President Rafael Reif, and Sean ... demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has ... -Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  ) because even though the Institute was on "lateness excused" policy and some ... something mildly funny that happened this morning and then I was all, "Why am I telling you this? I should blog about it." and then he was all, "You

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Institute Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ... an actual valentine, and it features a picture of a droid that can ... valentines. More on classes, work, and your strange obsession with leaving

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  !"]self-care and destress routine. [/annotation] Watching Steven Universe The Movie ... ="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  letter of the law, and yet he must not be impracticable. Institutions must ... rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  I've been blogblocked a lot and I've been really trying to find ... eloquent or interesting enough and I end up erasing it entirely. But I think ... to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  and technology. We're offering amazing prizes - including a scholarship ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to MIT, and we have offered early admission to 657. These students hail ... offer them admission this year. This decision has been made with care, and ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016