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  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and ... accepted in the space online. Can I send it my e-mail? If yes, where and in ... probably don't have it. I would recommend sending in an additional copy of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  times. Personally, I can't recall having heard of anyone being hassled ... ." Viksit, I can't tell you what your chances are of admission to MIT, because ... , or independent living groups, but that's a can of worms I'll stay out

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  great), i felt odd. while everyone was talking in the lobby of kresge auditorium, i took the stairs down and sat in one of the chairs in the corner ... friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  something embarrassing. In one of our first sessions, I tried to convince my ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I ... hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I ... Thursday at a dinner with MIT's Undergraduate Women in Physics, of which I am ... -notch restaurants in Cambridge. Speaking of which, I owe y'all a Sparknotes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... going to present in higher dimensions). I.e., the number of points in $A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... . That's why they can't predict the date in advance. I know it may seem ... -semester seniors. I know the month of March is an incredibly stressful time (I was in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... that I'm excited to see more of in my remaining half a year living here ... it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  , and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because ... of experience to go back on, and I can't reassure you about the next 3 ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed.  Every day I can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... it anyways. Many hold the mindset of “there is nothing else I can do to ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... less when you're out there in it. because that's really all any of us can ... holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is ... identity of the base pairs in it. Computers are our friends, but we can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... freshman year. that person can only staple in groups of up to four people ... very lazy person in terms of meeting people—thanks to the pandemic—so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  cooperation between NGOs. Having just been to India, I can tell you that it ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population ... , Sneha ^.^), I can stalk NGOs instead =P Just kidding - mostly, it'll just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  somewhere when I was young, in the half light or the cold blue of dawn ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... especially of the men of East Campus in scoring some Victoria's Secret MIT Pink

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  way to go, although a lot of dancers I know who have trained in studios ... 've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021