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  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is ... assessments for entering M.I.T. freshmen. He fears that the new 25-minute SAT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  ! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... with the decision-making process. In High School, I did a lot with FIRST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  the Johnson ice rink so far.    And now, for a montage of games: Tiny ... 10-250 for the keynote. The lanyard has The Behemoth logo on it—the ... . The Videri String Quartet, a local group, played music from the games

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  for you, and has a zero percent chance of coming with the bitter ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... biggest difference between the two: the VA is a place with mostly older men

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... office, the whole admissions staff received a same-day delivered boxed meal ... Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... Jay Leno and writers for the Saturday Night Live comedy show. A recent ... they [the data] have a lot of promise for really revolutionizing how we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  where I’ll live a year from now, but wherever it is, I’ll look for the ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... run now. There's all the coffee shops, which I used to save for writing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  So the presentation that I was making Photoshop slides for last time? I ... write it (this is my project, anyway, and I've been working on it for a ... news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , activities, and essays section of the application, I needed more room for a few ... school in the US for 6 years. I still don't have a green card, so I still ... 's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... -sets. Luckily I had a really good recitation instructor who focused more on the ... a drunk student stumbling around in an open field (our p-set for that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the lounge. The highest bidder named Destiny after his daughter. Destiny as a ... a ghost, two fridges have been nommed, and the exit sign is breeding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  locked away for 15-30 years for taking a TV from the corner store; for ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... fact that there was a video showing these men in the act. My blood boiled

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... predicting a 90.1% chance of an Obama victory beat the entire established

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... afterwards we all got a chance to meet President Hockfield. (By the way, the T

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  develop a docking port for little satellites on the International Space ... This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... . This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  afterwards. During the early pandemic I had lived with J’s family for a few ... making a tall stack of toast with butter for me and the rest of her ... adopted a dog, and his sister was about two feet taller. But the house

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  need numbers. For music. The number of beats in a song is regulated by ... different “names” in our respective languages for our numbers…all around the ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011