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  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  Yesterday, I briefly deserted my physics and orgo psets and headed ... : the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or ... is AWESOME. Those of you whom I spoke with were funny, nice, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... meeting, and later across the Bay Bridge to Lafayette, for another meeting that had us grabbing for and setting up extra seats to accommodate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   ... 't halt for us either, and all the hosts are regular MIT undergraduate ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  about exploring [annotation note="and to some degree sonic space, we just ... something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  degrees F. Mix the sugars, vanilla, eggs, and applesauce in a big bowl until it's homogenous and goopy. It'll be pretty runny. Add the baking ... in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities…it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free ... MIT application and consequently, you may become involved with different

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously ... and I each spent four hours writing three 12-bar arrangements of a ... just intrinsically awful at jazz, and this will get easier as we gain

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem ... Hopkins, and UMaryland; it felt nice to meet others who cared as much about ... activity that compresses all of my pent-up frustration and energy and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  'umba, Capoeira dancing, MIT Gospel, MIT Dance Troupe, Steel Pan, and so much more ... which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence ... Students' Union, the MIT Caribbean Club, and the MIT chapter of the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... , and a few thousand more to watch, eat cookies, and clap a lot. I ... awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  . My mom looked at the caller ID and said, "Oh look it's an out of state ... , played in concert halls across the country, won state championships, and ... So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  did #101: they earned their degrees and graduated. Congratulations, you ... Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during ... as a placemat for his jade plants. He pulled it out after finals, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it ... college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Court Case, Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207 (1985), LaMacchia and ... guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have ... /territories using their shape and how far off you are geographically (or for a harder

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  specific and imminent goal, university admissions, on my mind. At crunch ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or ... pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

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

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these ... opportunities and events, and c) illustrate the bicoastal life that I (and a lot ... 'll drive down to South Bay and conduct reconnaissance work out at Stanford; I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  before called "Ocean State Job Lots." We had been so spooked and ... purgatory-like reality that is Ocean State Job Lots and, more specifically ... Cerritos, Baekjeong, and some really good sushi places). One thing that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... ="Exploring Support Communities"]ESC,[/annotation] and other general freshman ... introduce frosh to their culture and subcommunities, which was the equivalent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020