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• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... refreshing 72-degree and sunny day. That was a welcome change. And then today

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and ... . Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  assumption that there is no institutional memory and that attitudes are ... . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife ... housemasters, Student Life staff, two GRTs, and two residents of the dorm. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  of other people just wanted to see what was beyond state lines and ... So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and ... before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  my awareness to power relations, infrastructure, and state building and ... , and how they may offer alternative solutions for our current ecological ... classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... Laboratory, the FBI, the Department of Defense, the United States Army and the Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop ... degrees and that things like ice cream runs are a necessity. My lab, being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  stereotypes and conceptions towards MIT (or prestigious universities as a whole ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... from sheer exhaustion, found out that minesweeper and tetris can be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... Institute" on his badge ("Like from Contact!") and asked him about what it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  have Star Wars technology, medeival institutions, and paleolithic ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... nagging at you about your SAT scores now and there's still technically one ... , and/or worrying whether your SAT scores are high enough right now (or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  viewings were fraught with empty promises and enticing offers for magical ... ’s advantages and benefits. I half expected the next pamphlet to offer me free ... universities have their own famous and accomplished faculty members. But from

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... Nobel Peace Prize went to Claire Rind and Peter Newcastle University for ... English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our ... It is currently 5:26am and even though I really truly definitely

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  through [annotation note = "I asked her about it now and apparently the ... maximum, and then treat the first two weeks as ‘reading period.’ This works, in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston ... Clubhouse coordinators for outstanding leadership skills, technical and creative ability, and contributions to the community, these Teen Summit

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008