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  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  without power now will not be able to read this blog post, so I would ask ... forward it on to them and spread the word so that they know. I would also ... hurricane, dumped heavy, wet snow across the region, exceeding two feet in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... get glasses. They look like this: Unfortunately, I was deliberately ... double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  just chill with us :) My project idea struck when I was wandering in my local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in ... . Starry Night in the style of Mango[/caption] I stared at the solid black

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... for the world. You'd know this much better than what I would. Your ... spite of that, you've still achieved in many ways. That's why I suggested

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Dear fellow chompers, A year ago, I was asked: … and in typical hosed ... introduced me to 30 cafes in the Greater Boston area, and since then, I ... caffeine companion in town” and deservedly so. I always mention this cafe

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation ... scrutinize....I can go on and on. The most enjoyable thing about HASS then, in ... answer." In some regards, I was considering a LAC when I applied to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... will probably end up over seventy-eight hours. In the meantime, I ... , spotting the train from New York pulling in on the neighboring track as I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12 ... Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I ... interested in Comparative Media Studies, which is where I earned my graduate ... , Elizabeth, and I started spending weekends in the NMC together, recutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  . Hasbro is AWESOME! I mean, let's face it, I work in a toy factory. Anywho ... discount I got him at work for $7.00. My work has a toy store in it, does ... agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently ... that scores from the December 1 tests would reach us in time for EA ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year ... expensive). I have staycations every now and then, would recommend. For the ... winter nights. ———   So much has happened in the past year, as I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry] Earlier this summer, I received an email from Dr. Karen Boiko from MIT ... checked it out, I happily agreed. Here's the link: AnglesI especially liked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... too. So now I find myself on an airplane in the early morning heading ... the next ten days I’ll be in Sacramento, San Francisco, Lafayette, and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  varsity fencer). However, I’m probably best remembered as that girl in ... in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... easier. (I still sometimes convert radian angles given in terms of [latex ... then can be expressed in terms of tau: [latex]e^{i\tau} = 1[/latex

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021