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Devoid of Content Well, mostly.
This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant ... commenting is acceptable behavior or not. I'm guilty of being one of those -
Blog / Events
Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...
time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... awesome as blogging is, sometimes academics comes first - specifically, I ... refers to the final day that MIT students can "drop" a class (remove it -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.
Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I ... of the fireworks. I apologize in advance for our witty banter. I’m much ... , garlic cheddar, which turned out overwhelming but delicious and that was -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.
In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even ... were curious, ozonolysis is actually a lot more straightforward than the -
Blog / MIT Life
Needles That was anticlimactic.
horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... , that is precisely why I paid money to have holes put in my body. And then ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in -
Blog / MIT Life
hope springs eternal a warm feeling
's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of ... , even more folks will rush in, and even though I know that it is not ... that they, too, will feel welcome here. The cynic in me is still a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.
front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... . This, in essence, is my theory of why pass/no record thinly obscures a ... test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on -
Blog / Admissions
End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.
remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a ... It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday -
Blog / Events
DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…
First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... icebreakers... That may or may not have ended in some violent pool ... . Impressive! (read: omg what am I doing with my life) The rest of the FPOP -
Blog / Admissions
Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…
This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... this is true, I'd optimistically thought that scores from the December 1 ... we do not have enough information. While it is important to file your -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true ... family. I’m going to a whole other area." Graduating with a 4.0 GPA ... us about 450 people live here. So if you do t he math that's about one -
Blog / MIT Life
Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.
clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in ... much as I must have scared him. * That said, some of the cats do the ... the dorm? EC is pretty informal in that you can keep other pets too if -
Blog / Admissions
New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.
page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but a forthcoming software patch should (hopefully) fix that. I think the ... Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new -
Blog / Academics & Research
Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft
understanding. I learned that when William Barton Rogers founded MIT in order to ... in artisan, as in skilled craft. I learned that, as far back as 1919 ... : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for -
Blog / How to Food
1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity
access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... cheap! Make sure to use the freezer- it is your best friend. I do this ... need per recipe, I put them all in a Google Keep note Mealpacking Pack -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Alaska Where I am right now.
I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist
I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... soon (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about -
Blog / Admissions
My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.
. Is it ironic or fitting that I, a legacy admit, wasn't enamored until ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the ... get in. I was almost certain that I would get rejected from MIT, and I -
Blog / MISTI
Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome
to work. Now that was a pleasant surprise! Since then, I’ve tried ... participate in MISTI-Italy. It has been an experience that I will never forget ... has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say