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  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... family-owned businesses and trendy food destinations in general. I mean ... if I’d gone to a different university. There’s just so much you can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... about to sit down to continue the studying I had started earlier in the ... was “I am going to make shelf labels so I can finally know where all my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in ... , I figured I'd stop in at the Urgent Care clinic to see what they thought. When a nurse came in to see me and asked what I was in for, I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I wouldn't be surprised in this ... admitted. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with

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

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I wouldn't be surprised in this ... quota. I'm still very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry ... Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... crystals in the chocolate. Here you can see the difference between chocolate

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Shuttle/SafeRide Z Center -- the only place in the winter where I've consistently found ... coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... Cape Cod -- or so I hear, I've never been; ask me in a week =) Coolidge

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  and said, "Go Forth and Measure." I never thought my secret ninja skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive. As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space ... chagrined about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  , why don't I let Professor Machover speak for himself. You can read a ... One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it ... : Lemur You: wtf, bye *disconnect* You: I like turtles *disconnect* You: I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... concentration, I have seen just tremendous, insatiable intellectual hunger in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here ... when I can. Kiran also asks, "Is it true MIT is aiming for a class of ... Students?" This is a question I answered in this post. The answer was: "We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  edits in October, the moment had finally come. I was done. But now was a ... colleges. You are not losing yourself in these applications. I'll conclude ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was ... undergraduate at MIT majoring in physics. Rush Holt: Physics! Me: Yes, I gather

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  family during the holiday season. I love them – they can be connected in ... unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... detailed synopsis and cast list). I got involved in the process a couple weeks ago thanks to the technical Theater Arts faculty in Rinaldi, whom I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... . I exaggerate, of course. In sandwich terms (what better terms are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008