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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have populations of 5.3 and 8.2 million people respectively, so Hot Springs seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  (Title above and song below inspired by lyrics from Avenue Q's "What ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and ... on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... post is that Prof. Reddien allowed me to interview him the other day, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how ... MIT's campus complete with video clips and 360-degree panoramas of ... psets, 3 labs, and 2 papers that are all due tomorrow by 5pm. There's just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  universe much like ours - but its inhabitants are built from pixels and lines ... college essays, and maybe you’re right, but I really like writing! College ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this ... brochures? tips and things? website? information fairs? making a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  Architecture and Islamic Cultures Statistical Methods in Economics Can you match up the class with the number? (Hint: there are two 14s and two econ ... Weinberg format: 3 one-hour lectures and 2 one-hour recitations fun facts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  shielded as we are by this great institution. This blog is my platform, and I ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... could really synthesize who i had been and what the Institute had made me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  , and hopefully someday, a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 454 applicants ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... from the waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 40 students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  degrees from this fine institution!"]Charles and Henry Greene ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more floor space for other things."]loft[/annotation]during REX, and then write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  research on the expanding universe, and is only offered once every two years ... to enjoy all the fun activities Boston and Cambridge have to offer ... me that I was pulling a “freshman spring” and taking too many classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and ... and can still multiply and divide just fine in her almost-senile 90 year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of ... Preview Weekend (CPW)! Over a thousand students will be on campus and there ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... Exam week starts, and before I know it I’ll be graduating. Where has the ... -traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006