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• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map ... . On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I ... a 60L hiking backpack onto my shoulders and flew to Quito, the capital

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A ... line. A nice man gave me a form to fill out and pointed me to a nice lady

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  response which we then evaluate, akin to the soft rubber hammer which a ... paper applications, we used to just include a blank piece of paper and ask ... questions which are going to a) elicit the most informative, enlightening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... have to look forward to is a down market. According to this article, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... that I've grown to dislike my time in California. Only a little bit ago I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... made a difference in our process – who you are, your approach to life and ... developed a dedicated COVID-19 FAQ topic to provide the most up-to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... find a UROP," I was watching Cartoon Network and trying to score free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... takes a lot less AC to cool the servers, and the whole place becomes a lot ... stamp all over a package to be sent  through an airport. (This was tested

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major ... to choose, but almost all of our students choose a major and find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  shape and make a good faith effort to inform us of your circumstances, we ... both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit ... that he'll be heading to his alma mater West Point next year, as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... and a left, a front and a back. This has to do with the fact that animals tend to travel in a certain direction, facing forward when doing so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... MacGregor to play 11:30pm Ultimate Frisbee out on Briggs Field. I did a ... I'm glad I'm five stories above it. To my left, a full-length red

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... ). Then we had to cut the wood, which meant we had to plan a design. Here

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which ... seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which ... year of undergrad, I chose to live in a double, because I really liked

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... out the door. I wanted to witness the magnificence of a Cambridge twilight, a previously unfamiliar event to me. And, let me tell you, such did

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... 't forget to add in a HASS each term, and try not to schedule more than one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... when a lot of people seem to enter a mindset of now what? You’ve prepared ... your other work. Mine was learning to longboard, a couple friends of mine

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... to a three-week neuroscience-focused summer camp when I was 15. It was ... . When it came time to choose a school, I felt like it was easy for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020