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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... , the writing of which resembles pulling teeth but creates a satisfying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  enjoy the last moments of sunshine. My head resting on my backpack and my ... I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... through the form of already begun works. There’s something to be said here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  classes that I took – those weren’t spur of the moment decisions – but I ... , or any of the problems of [annotation note="the possible exception ... 's not exactly a field of physics in the traditional sense

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we ... additional students this year for the Class of 2015. Thanks to all of you on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street.   I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan ... Academy works so well. The key to the success of his early videos, he says

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  's spending the rest of the summer bicycling along the entire West Coast of the ... to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were inside, happily working towards admitting the Class of 2011. Tomorrow, the ... As Ben has noted, we have begun the early action selection committee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... senior events that are planned for the class of 2019. My main concerns ... along the lines of applying or choosing a graduate school, med school, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions ... Architectural Tour of the Boston Public Library. Favorite things about Boston: I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the ... midterm in the middle of the term, but instead 2-3 midterms plus a final ... the others? Never did I think that even the wrath of MIT could shake my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live ... wonderfully idiosyncratic family of the admissions office, who will always be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . Favorite things about Boston: The local music scene, the youthful feel of the ... little mermaid was HOT. But in the spirit of MIT, I'll go with Speed Racer ... /MIT: Two things - first, put yourself - your true self - into all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... , keep these hints in the back of your mind. If your high school / current ... everything the night before. It saves you a lot of stress, since you won

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... /sugar/salt solution (7.06). You won't absorb water without salt due to the structure of ... structure of the transporters in your intestine (7.06). 2. The reason you feel

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

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I like? Can the size of the smaller school offer a more supportive ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... the comments thread. A lot of questions while I was gone, here we go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed ... studio. I miss this kind of food when I’m away from my family. Over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design ... ? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005