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  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions ... I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  the door of her cadillac, I step in back, and we're gone. She turns me ... into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... application essays. I guess I can't confirm that he actually used any of that ... history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard ... work in"]i am spending a lot of that on my UROP[/annotation], but that ... complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... This past Sunday, I walked out of an early screening of Everything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  right after I was rejected: In hindsight, a lot of this was me trying to ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... -designed grading scheme of any assignment i’ve seen at mit, in the sense that the ... 's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note="I ... dozens of great ideas for board games or stories– more than I could fit in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  , and I'm still traumatized from the very short period of time in which I ... I'm doing with Petey, in which we drive separately to the middle of ... I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... order. I excerpt from it below: MIT’s tradition of national service is ... service, who have been commissioned out of MIT. ...   In 1996, with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  emerged in the dozens of experiments I tried over the semester. And it feels ... I was overcommitted in the past two semesters. Because of that, I ... ; the stuff I see in the news is the cream of the crop in undergrad

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  having fun I'm working my butt off and am probably in various states of ... of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... myself outside of the classroom. In high school, I was pretty limited in ... When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... grasp, I've been following the Opera of the Future project with growing

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... was college, it was a just a matter of choosing which one. But, I ... of trepidation that I say that the next 9-10 years of my life are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... them all weekend in favor of rush burgers. I sat next to my parents on ... Haus president and I took in every second of it without paying much

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... domestic applicants has ended. I spent much of the day discussing and ... Weekend. You might ask, so selection is over, why can't I have my decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005