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  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  accurate, though they talk about the process from a journalist's point of ... in the French system is very different from getting an A+ in the US ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... milk directly from a family-owned dairy farm. Most of our vegetables come ... .     Voices from the community: I’m not a child abuse survivor

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... counties over. Or maybe you’re from a small town where Friday night football ... strengths gained from living in a rural area or small-town are important in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  different from those of a 6-3 and 7 double major. That given, I’m pretty ... . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It’s been a long time since I’ve so thoroughly bungled a test. There are many

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  shows a text conversation between her and Liam. It’s all messages from ... first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... illustrate it, but I thought it would be a neat challenge to illustrate it and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  to be a little more pricey. Coming from California, I'm a big fan of ... pretty good mall in Cambridge, and there's even a free shuttle from Kendall ... there's a bus from there? - if you're looking for lamps, fans, etc. There

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  're worrying about picking their kids up from school and how to buy a house on a ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of ... silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I ... right from the get-go, but after walking down MIT's Infinite Corridor, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... Communities program, I gathered data from several building owners around the ... -efficient retrofits in low-income housing. I made a few site visits along the way

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  night. Here are some thoughts, from an MIT undergrad's perspective: 1. I think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... .022 textbook made a cameo in Spiderman 2. 4. One thing that did bother me was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... this year. The only thing we ask that you send in is a midyear grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ... boom!, I've been using a lot of techniques from all the hours I spent ... I've never considered myself a very natural leader. I'm usually pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  [email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to ... Pi Day videos from 2014 until now, do another Hades run, go touch grass ... could also check out some of the highlights from Isabella ‘24’s You

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  147 classes have graduated from MIT in its history; today, the Class ... admit I'm a bit sentimental about this particular commencement. The Class ... undergraduates whom I helped admit, and I've seen them grow from small, squishy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  First, from the College Board: The last two registration deadlines ... the SAT or ACT, 3 SAT IIs: one in math, one in science, and a third SAT ... the June administration of the SAT IIs, if for no other reason than a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  stolen from Teresa J. '26's blog), so I figured this year I’d share a ... Here) A remake of this running scene from the show, Severance, but with the audio from the intro. Also added a little Subway Surfers section

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  . I’m currently doing zoom MIT from home, but I have a feeling that ... part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman ... other incredibly cool people :)). If you’re a high school student living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020