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  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... Couple Of Weeks In my last entry, I promised to answer the popular

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  up, they became inspired to get involved in service events," said ... . On coming to MIT, she participated in CityDays, an annual orientation ... power that community service contains to bring a community together in an

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... ...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source ... who had begun to specialize in different subtopics. At the end, these

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  , people are really hardcore and get up at all hours to wait in line for ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... documentaries in 10-250 with a group of friends as we prepare to make our own

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  . Having the chance to get that coveted position in the lab of your dreams ... 're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... be able to get a UROP?” Thankfully, there is already an excellent guide

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  have to literally shift clocks in order to get sunrises and sunsets at ... -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ...  multiple layers of clothing in order to keep warm. I’m sure those of you who’ve been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... more full answer to that question: In addition to lab classes and the ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these ... : Ok, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Rewind to August 19th 10:00am ... W20-491. We were the first ones to get to the room because we were too

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... we are trying to integrate VR tech into high school classrooms. In this game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... children, may wish to look more broadly at the educational enterprise in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in ... this happen. Oh, and to Monterrey para las montañas... Priya in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  keeps sending me mail. 12.How to get into MIT . . . literally. As in which ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity ... ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... Most universities aim to attract well-rounded individuals with varied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping ... self-doubt. In hindsight, it’s easy to recognize that they spoke out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  quite timid in getting to know them. But my experience with UROPs and Tw ... gets work done in an effort to further our mission. The TwT experience ... really believed in the mission and it seemed like a good way to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... ’t wait to welcome them to convocation in Cambridge this fall, where they ... . Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  graduate school and get my Ph.D. in astronomy. I sent a very happy e-mail to ... Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on ... are filtering in to drop off their garments in the back room, and artists who are displaying things in the gallery are coming to install their

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015