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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... together, and we're getting to know each other pretty well by now) and catch ... -around awesome person. Wednesday, Mar 1. Free day in Palo Alto! I sleep in, go to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  . As someone often who doesn’t have the patience to measure things in standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the ... large rectangle of the black cotton. I sewed in some pleats to add some

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  construction: "I didn't get it." (To be fair, he started watching after we had ... 's an original script. I like that it gets you to think about what ... destroying The Ring, we get introduced to Treebeard. Panel reaction

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... are considered in our admissions process. MIT is lucky enough to not ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... . Remember that your application is reviewed in context, and that we look to
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  direction. We hung it up in the main lounge for the world to see, and a few ... labor. To advertise our product, we wrote a live infomercial to present in ... could in 30 minutes.  Mathcamp’s spirit makes me want to dream more, and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to ... dinner. I used nearly all of my guest passes, but we managed to get all nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ...   Friday night I went down the river to the annual MIT- Harvard

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like ... decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of ... resources to help MIT faculty and students move their ideas from the lab to
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  , or TOEFL, in addition to the required SAT Subject Tests. Q. I am an ... Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... outside in the rain to visit one of Starbucks’s 6 reserve roasters in the ... my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  to get inflammatory DMs questioning if I was actually in Wales. Lookin ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... British landscape (no offense New Jersey). I was matched to a few schools in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  whirlwind of hardships, from Grace cutting their investment in half to having ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money ... little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  decided that upon my return, I'd treat you to my collection of 18.03 quotes ... imaginary, then the dots in the applet will be blue." (Draws dots in orange on board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  , when am I going to get this kind of freedom again?  ... math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... data, so I forced us to play six more rounds in which I recorded some ... surprised to see that if you exclude the one outlier in Jen's performance

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... . However, a closer inspection points to a significant variance present in day-to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to ... computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for ... bookshelf in my personal blog. It's now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008