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  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  colleges and universities to join us in demystifying the admissions process ... visits and the big regional info sessions. I'm not looking forward to the endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  university. I ended up living there for the majority of my time in Mexico and ... pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near ... research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the admissions season, here is every single track on the album and its applicant

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  University of Cambridge. Typical weeks, honestly. Now clearly, some of this ... Cambridge undergraduates do) and I didn't note when I watched 24 this year ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  .  But for others, it's not so black-and-white.  If you ask them what ... maybe 1" (that's EECS, MechE, and CivilE, for you non-MIT readers). I ... -resistant Cavendish banana strain, enjoyed 7.012, and snagged a nice UROP at Langer Lab

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for ... hand in anything with words in, on and/or around it that leaves the ... brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious ... of snow. Even better, right outside of the dorm where Siyi and I live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  concerned with formal aesthetics and those concerned with the political. The ... ;present,” but your identity is “absent.” (Oh, and what about the droll ... Soviet art. Our conceptual point of departure was: Soviet economic and

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  MIT and not Cambridge University, so I've compiled some interesting ... at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... took in their fall term (Michaelmas term) and spring term (Lent term) at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those pictures. On the day where we think about the Doctor, me and some friends ... stores and cool things over there. We rode the bus across town and it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here ... internship, and I must say it's been quite an adventure. I've settled into a schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  garnet unfuses to ruby and sapphire in steven universe, how they were a ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and ... policies, and other fun topics. our 'managers' eventually pick us up, which

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays ... coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and ... acceptable. Here at MIT, I learn the mysterious words and ways of computers

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  . It would be him, me, and Dan '11. "Sure, why not?" I replied, and one ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... way around the playing surface, recognize other opponents, and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow ... , which, despite the excitement and adventures, has wrought havoc on my ... the last two; I just started with ‘relax’ and ‘recharge’ and then felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... University  Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public ... , iPad, or laptop Watch the sun set and rise from the Green Building

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox ... opportunity to live and work with gifted students as they took classes through the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... , or Waitlisted for the Class of 2013 and I know you all are waiting for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the ... and a 1/3 chance of no deaths. In this formulation most people prefer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005