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• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  sciences department in between. But course 17 (Political Science), though seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Universal Championship Wrestling in Kentucky. Courses in CMS frequently take ... wrestling. Later, we both did varsity wrestling in high school, which is a ... class in the CMS department this term devoted to pro wrestling: CMS.602

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that ... mediocrity in both. In fact, 60% of interviewed students said that they planned ... well-rounded by participating in a variety of activities, from sport

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  in problemsets and the semester is in full swing. Now, here we are two ... the post] Recently (aka in the last blog posted), Fatima '25 lamented ... . And yet, I think it's the most honest sentiment I can offer at this time

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of ... the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.   ... ; by Ryan P. '20  Over here in admissions, we are still finalizing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  discussion covering life in residences, residential support offerings ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  the one purchased. Or they could. To paraphrase: "We'll arrive in time ... ALWAYS happens? At least seen it in the movies? Random guess: This will ... contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in ... -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high school, because our mom kept us in check organiztion wise (read: she threw

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is

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

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT Sandwich In The World™: (1) Slap together week-old bacon, lettuce, tomatoes ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP  all-expenses paid in Korea, teaching kids science/English. I never gave ... during IAP. But one night in September, I was checking my emails, writing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light ... training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019