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  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... . Students could not friend students at other colleges. In fact, most colleges weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... promised, celebrated his admission in December by running around the yard ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... about us and the halls could vote (in EC, there are ten halls, and each hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... , Culture, & Gender in the U.S & Beyond: A Psychological Perspective

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  prize of a computer and a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida ... because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  that we are all experiencing feel strikingly familiar. Airlines were in ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... topic no matter where you went: at home, at school, on the street, in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  that offers Freshmen up to 20ish different programs they can engage in ... scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland the day GDPR was implemented, and in one of my classes we discussed the ... community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... experiences deserve equal recognition in who we become, some just color you more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  , offered in three different-flavored classes in the spring and fall. Most ... but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far enough to go to the good food places in NY :("]good food over Winter break

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... problems, through encouraging “diverse activities in education, research, and ... the colors of fall and use materials I see in everyday life." Created by

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010