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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just ... 29-year-old, in the finals? Back in the day, Simon criticized 21-year ... -culture to me! Please and thank you.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  -related news, the productivity geek in me decided to try out an entirely new note ... reverting to my previous system of scribbling on bits of looseleaf paper, in which case I'll probably be too embarrassed to blog about it. In other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... selection committee. We will receive November scores in time, so don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  substantial time to process all of these forms that come in right at the ... app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... procrastinating! A few answers to common questions: Please remember that if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  you can find him walking from his residence in East Campus to class ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  Back in March, I typed into our internship database: "california health internship." Little did I know that this would turn out to be an ... .org and tailored to be culturally appropriate to the Chinatown population

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give that power to someone else. Don't give it to your parents, don't give it to your siblings, don't give it to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  don't know how to feel. We will be sitting quietly in Lobby 7 all day ... the way forward. In the afternoon we might open up to discussion, feel ... to make us hate each other. I hope that everyone in America can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... 's Tale to Terminator 2. The second shelf has a pair of blank white

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  actually did know her, and rescinded his statement. In addition to Mock ... On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in room 26-100 This is the same room in which I attended 8.01: Classical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  Thursday from 12 to 1, I am in the T Club Lounge, sprawled on purple yoga ... mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General Institute Requirement in Physical Education. The requirement includes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to ... scheduled to graduate in the top one or two percent of their class," said ... ) was able to immerse himself wholeheartedly in a research curriculum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009