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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I ... instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather ... time progressed and I became more aware of my surroundings (and somewhat

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... , I’ll link it here.) And speaking of diversity, there are a few things

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more pressing Ideas Of The Now pop into my head. Today, the pecking order ascended ... with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the pleasure of attending that evening. If you have heard of or seen Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, then you’ll know that it was one of the first

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population, at the same time. Which more or less sounds like massive amounts of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books ... mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... , working on a project that is looking at the vulnerability of the different

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... summer and head off to what I think will be one of the best weeks of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy yet unfamiliar basement of Walker Memorial. It was one of the first ... name of my show conveys the unique combination of music I play; that is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test ... multiple choice questions in the realms of biology, chemistry, organic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I ... tomorrow! OK – not really true. But the sense of freedom and spontaneity, the “go with the flow, ride the wave of life” mentality is so fulfilling – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  Communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, like Dave, perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... one of the constitutive elements of this new borg-Ben newly arisen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today ... series. A thirtysomething dad was scrutinizing a copy of the fourth book ... of the series and stopped reading. "Oh, I hate those books," I say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008