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  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... ,100, which included a 790 out of 800 in math. Patty Pounds, Molly's mother ... influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and ... where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining ... a period of little sleep. I've slept maybe 20 hours in the past 5 days. At the close of rush, I will be vacationing in an undisclosed location

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one ... my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... . We ended up riding every one of the water slides, except for me -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman ... art! p.s. if you think one of the counselors is photoshopped in, you are ... We started our ju n i  o    r -- wait wait wait ... there must be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... home. In my next few entries leading up to the Mystery Hunt, I'll link to a few more of my favorite puzzles of yore. But now, I must get back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  our new bloggers! Class of 2014 Anna Ho was born in Singapore but ... out of the program. In her long experience writing for a few different ... . And the gigantic flamethrower I ordered was stuck in Beijing. "I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of Leader ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up and left. Soymilk, cold and packaged and carried in my backpack, as I ... Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  entry, Mitra and I'll probably be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, preparing for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  . Student fries. Shake Shack (Dinner) I was in Boston helping two of my ... severely lacking in Iceland). This time, I did remember to take a picture of ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of ... ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh so critically damped, in danger of tilting towards instability at any

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  the course of the year in the Infinite Corridor basement, each pumpkin created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the ... LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... , meet Franky '15. I met him during CPW a number of years ago that I won

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom ... current 4 million tons per year to 7 million tons of goods in 2015. Some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  of time to talk you right then, but you can always follow up with them ...  you have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get ... networking abilities.  You can choose whether to let them in on your secrets.

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  . Congrats to all four of you! I'll be in touch soon to get you up and running ... So we were a little more efficient this year in making decisions (i.e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted ... of excellence in math, science and engineering will tend to fare well in MIT admissions. But do any of the above things, or anything else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005