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  Preparing for CPW

  

  be fun, and you'll get to meet all of the students you've been reading ... some pictures from the past week over the next couple of days as sleep ... Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  lost under the canopy of Allison's bed and checking out food options at ... continuing obsession with Food Network by recounting some of the best and worst ... conspiring to drop it on April 1st. Despite the fact that half of us burst into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not ... blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... . [-250 aura] Pigeons I'm taking 21W.744: The Art of Comic Book Writing ... dinner with some of the crew at 6 p.m. It wasn't until three days later

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  discord server, building on the organization of the old one, and a dedicated ... earned goes either to the Humanitarian Fund from the National Bank of ... ’ve already bought a couple of bracelets, and I’ll attach some of the designs

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... substitute for the sensation of interior space, but I grabbed a few anyway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 ... (honest! - I didn't find out about SATs until the summer of freshman year, when I was in Mathcamp - ah, the naivety of young minds). And now, 2008

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... , explain that he worked on a graph theory problem about the coloring of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  '08 had seen March of the Penguins, so she knew that the best way to get ... picture and be reminded of the trauma. Sorry, Megan '08! After that, we sat ... this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  the wired brain of some android. So, of course, I did what any MIT ... together the guts of a robot, anticipating the moment when a dozen blinking ... the misery of pounding out code in a cubicle during a sophomore

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , a tenured and world-renowned professor will stand up in front of the ... time to introduce the concept of the Fourier Transform, he gave a 10-minute talk on the life and times of Optimus Prime. Because just like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  , wishing I could constantly be in the in-between of here and not quite there yet. Because lately I've felt as if I'm running out of time. The way my ... with no recollection of the day, only the weary blanket of exhaustion

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... , "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I ... overcoming illness while mentoring the young as the captain of the swim team

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... from him over the last 17 years. For those of you trying to figure out ... that the simple version is out of the way, it’s time to mention what he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do ... couple of months?  I said to the same friend the other day, hm, I ... ? Doesn’t it ache? How someone can carry the knowledge of someone else on

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... kind of unorthodox. Back during the application season, I was pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... underestimated the difficulty of snowboarding, which I quickly realized as I fell onto my face within the first ten seconds of going down the bunny slope

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of ... DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006