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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... nice time to talk about MIT's campus organization. My goal is to teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... record for a 9 day adventure of 23.7minutes. I scurried along to submit ... . So I spread out and said goodnight to the world for a few hours. I woke

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie ... Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer ... UROPed on campus all summer to work on the experiments for my thesis

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  Elephantidae and Canis lupus for some reason, so I had to wedge Tufts University ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you're lying. I'm the only person ever who's asked this question, and I'm pretty

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take long-term commitments for clubs and stuff. and i'm not going to say, oh, i'm gonna use the time for personal projects or whatever. none of that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... get escorted out for. I got too close to the ropes. Enjoy it, Martin ... . It's time for the next year, whether that's college, senior year

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so ... exceptionally well to take full advantage of the personal opportunities that ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music with ice water and grapes (my personal favorite so far. Feasts like ... 's meal, all made here, by us, with friends. (See our calendar for the rest

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves ... love going to the ballet, eating famous Boston ice cream (such as ... Looney Tunes cartoons Advice about applying to college/MIT: Pay attention

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  .) After this, I had to leave for field hockey practice. I knew I'd be gone most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19 ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  personal schedule for myself and started working on my first task.  Roughly ... common business practice for Chinese immigrants to open small restaurants ... life compared to other students. For as long as I can remember, one of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular action, you may want to set that interview up pretty soon as well). For MIT ... EC to find a time and place that works for your interview. In a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well.  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... best options for your trace, or click on the triangle to the right of the ... Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For ... minority myth (a topic I’m personally invested in). For and against ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  ; Hanna's gone off to New York for grad school, but I'm stuck around because ... a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011