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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT ... was found to be the optimal position for seven people, and, given the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According ... identical, and the only way to know for certain is with a DNA test. If the DNA ... week ago, we thought Elizabeth was wrong. Because for our whole lives

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this ... autonomous vehicle company) I’m learning how to skateboard. 98% for the a e

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the ... thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I would have to pack into senior ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I'd love to talk to you about whatever, because you're now affiliated with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... students for the Class of 2019, not even Leeroy Jenkins. We have seen all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  powerfully beautiful to me. Thanks Kevin, for this :D I think there’s a point ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full, lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  , fax the missing documents to 617.687.9184. Please allow for five days ... Hi y'all - Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt ... prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... , Professor Lindgren arranged a "back-stage visit" for us to see Yo-Yo Ma, and ... a brief for the importance of attending to thoughts principally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... -drawn dystopia set in post-apocalyptic England. Penny Arcade For, by, and about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  colleagues for showing the world how MIT works." Her May 2nd email to the MIT ... article suggests, we probably won't have to wait that long for the next one. Thanks to Bruce Mendelsohn for the pictures!

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... to Random after class, I took a picture for the Internet. What else is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... for snapper. Sadly, though, I had almost no luck (skill?). Maybe I was ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  deadlines and actually feeling compelled to put forth the effort for paper ... upstairs for a quick tour of his computing den, we headed back to Tetazoo ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005