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• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ) had to say about it: I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... to Mollie: In the interest of full disclosure, though, I should note ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Technology in the fall. Eletha Flores' dream always was to attend the ... in its District regional competition. "I always wanted to go to MIT ... categories in which students are recognized from six to nine, she said. "We are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... point in November, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm emailed out to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... required. Enrollment limited with preference given to students in the Media ... for lecture to start so we all hushed and listened in. The idea behind

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  redesigning the homepage so that, in addition to the blogs, you also get a ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge ... knowledge did. Most days, however, I strove to just get done with the agenda ... place in the world, and I was the only being at the time to see. (image

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  , they get to relive their triumph to an interested audience, in the latter ... part of MIT culture, that they believe in, that they wish to uphold for ... community, students who never had the chance to live in the dorm that they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  . The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization ... 's the only way to keep from getting sad about some folks I really want ... over Route 2 on my way in to MIT. On the way I pick up Nance Nance

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you put in, so my detachment is on me.     There’s an innocent energy to ... gifts as a way to distinguish the recipient of each gift. Then sometime in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at check-in, and walking down The Infinite Corridor, I saw The Admissions Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... , to chat about our mutual interest in astronomy outreach and how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with ... for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in ... , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind ... didn’t straight up bomb it and get that painful “fail-mail” in my inbox

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  get to everybody, but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can ... /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  --students narrow down their course selections to somewhere in the 4-7 range (usually ... run across the street to turn in homework, but I do appreciate how new ... interested in exploring. Drop by Media Lab Needed to pick up a rec letter

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic ... ! It was a nice surprise. Now, time to forget it all in two years like I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... getting myself into. The syllabus sounded interesting, and I wanted to do

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but ... every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in ... get too stressed out! Go out with your friends. Give out candy to cute ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014