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  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... year I get [annotation note="on the ground, in my general vicinity

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  fully to one school, while still hoping to get in elsewhere and with ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two ... .mit.edu. In addition to slacking on email (in order to spend more time on ... applicants? I know it says you are required to live on campus in one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... train, used to and, to some extent, continues to play an important role in ... used to be all the rage in country music. Purported to be on the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... getting four half-gallon tubs of ice cream and happening to come across a

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... wanted to do lab research for the longest time, but after getting a UROP in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  for a different reason, whether it was to get somewhere or just to ... parkway in boston, so that i could actually climb the stairs to the bridge ... close to the water and peer in. But, I found that most of the grass was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... wanted to get involved with research and being a teaching assistant early. I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... experiment in lab, I chose the experiment every time. I didn't go to night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ’ve spent the past fourteen days traveling back in time to the blissful years ... subconsciously continued to have this faith in my wellbeing. Of course all of that ... incredibly lucky to have my aunt with me at the time. Her instincts kicked in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in ... really start learning when you get to MIT. I have a few friends who row

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... button.[/annotation] In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions ... to see this map show up in [annotation note = "ie, emailed out to all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022