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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty ... midterms, psets, and essays clustered in the same few days, anyway? And you ... . And it means that when something is actually urgent, you're prepared

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I’ve been attacking people at grocery stores and farmer’s markets around the ... concept of supporting local businesses, artists, and farmers. My all

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  't affect the camera at all - it still works perfectly, and no pictures were ... ?!??!!?" and "wow, just wow..." I guess I was more focused on being there "in ... explains my smiling face. The slightly frazzled hair and right hand reluctant

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... close to 200 pictures, and I would have taken more, were it not for the fact that my battery ran out of power and I didn't have my charger

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic ... will be a non-lame blogger and give you a lot of hard integrals. Last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that ... it home, however, are the colors of the sign. When yellow and red are

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... 't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay, so I still do exist and I still do blog ... sketchy liberal slums of UC Berkeley and the sprawling Spanish resort ... awesome atmospheric chemistry stuff, and, well, it's hard, unlike choosing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia ... Academy Award 3. I am eating french fries dipped into Frosty right now and ... wearing only shorts and a t-shirt. In February! Anyway, the worst part of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then ... some repeated pumping noise somehow, and I was only just at that moment ... powder, so I used a little cumin, cinammon, nutmeg and dried hot pepper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is beautiful around here (let's hope it lasts through next week!) and everyone is ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . First there's traditional advising, where you are assigned an advisor and ... weird and I don't know anything about it, except that it's residence based ... . Anyway, I made a stop at Barnes and Noble yesterday and picked up a new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do ... . My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... : silence and song. Moments of laying down on my bed, looking at the ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... , and less concerned about the market, but one part stuck out to me: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... friends and "good" conversations Musicals I like How my day is going

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  pretty dated at this point, even though my friends and I just discovered it ... ’s a node graph that shows you who sends you emails and who sends emails ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  with some frequently asked questions and answers. What new stuff should ... grades and anything new that has happened or will happen. As always, you ... January, you may also designate MIT as a score recipient, and we'll add them

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016