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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes ... 's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in ... students working late in lab, people psetting, athletes, artists, awesome

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• 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
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  , and science textbooks they had. If they weren't so heavy, I would have ... we are going to be in Lusaka this weekend or Mwape, but I hope to have ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... program which teaches sophomores about leadership and work-place dynamics, I ... say "My name is Joe, and I have three dogs," while that line might be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... robot competition, and tomorrow I will take my first class in Toy Product

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in ... responses started rolling in. (I think I got like 50 responses in 10 minutes

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  that, every lecture, our professor would bring in really amazing speakers ... , every lecture, a different student would present the week’s readings in a ... , a D&D group in Next House, and I wrote about Singing for Service

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... the best noodles I’ve ever had in my life. It was this little hole in ... This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  pset - I found myself lying in bed awake at 4 a.m. And then 5 a.m., 6, 7, until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... if it was because I had coffee too late in the evening, or had slept in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... ! The course has asynchronous materials in addition to the synchronous 1 ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020