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• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of those conditions. It is finals week, and I hate everything. In fact, I ... Lagrange's equations of motion. In short, I Hate This eFfing Place. If you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer ... submitted; there is no electronic version of this form. You can submit ... /Docufide to submit letters of evaluation and transcripts, your school can send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a fearful though pumped pre-frosh. I could not even fantasize the reality of ... life. And packing. I was terrified of packing then. I met a graduate of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day ... . . . " Me: ". . . what!?!" Jon: "Wait, you can't even solve this! I hate math

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST ... Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with ... next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary ... 1997 and I spent most of the summer in Las Vegas (where my mom

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing ... orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that ... that the preview-function view of the answer shrinks the font, then I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News ... vibrancy and energy with them, and I respect the importance of the role the admissions office plays in bringing these outstanding students to campus. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  the mouths of babes ("babes" as in "younger people!" geez!), I took some ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in ... figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  can hurt me--and they do. (8) You're the best man I'll ever know. There's no way I can ever go. (9) Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to ... The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  yourself one of the most impressive things I’ve done in a while ... -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened ... MyMIT. Remember that in the past two weeks we have been receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  —a shiny prize wheel in front of a heap of good prizes. A Harvard athlete ... by this cryptic message. We opened the app again. In the midst of ... since we haven't gone to any of Harvard's sports events in the first place

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  in the program and 12 upperclassman mentors explore one of six ... scene. You can read about all of the different FPOPs on the Orientation ... ! I'd like you to send me some of your pictures from your first days on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity ... favorite IM sport was ice hockey. I played a lot of roller hockey in high ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004