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  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... Book home. I set it up in front of my PC, on the desk, and nine times out of ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... assume I should put this in the optional essay part but can you verify ... . Anonymous asked, "can i send the informations of the part 1 of the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  covered by soft ice. But if I can get myself out of the house and into the ... cold in the city doesn't feel as bad anymore. We walked up most of the ... I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... that can set things on fire if knocked over). There are plenty of power ... what you'd fold up in a chest of drawers. Get an extra-beefy hanger or

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... fact. Even so, I am still 100% in favor of the traditional information ... post of completely unsolicited application advice! Before I dive into

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... handed me his camera, and I thought he wanted me to take a picture of him ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  in Book Expo America before exploring the city. Then I’ll head back to ... to life, of exploring the roads she intends to explore. But I can tell ... of needles? But there are things that stick with me. I can’t believe

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  " and "Japan Before Time" have already run.) I hope to see many of you in ... '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... tell you how you can solve your plots. A few of those sheets had not yet

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  , And the warm glow of waning summer sun, I feel like I could sit in this ... I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other ... why you are interested in their field of research. For me, I started

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  I eventually tire and leave them and join new things in hopes of ... institution in the world and it feels like I've made nothing of it. Three years ... their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  ), consensus is not easy. I think living in the dorm fostered a certain sense of ... bigger stake in calling "mine," and I think most of all, I just wanted a ... them being impossible to dig out from feet of snow in the backyard. Did I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  fill in the application for Class of 2011 nor can I change the year of ... -topic: Can I send Part I of the application in the mail and complete Part II ... ,TOEFL IN DETAIL? IN WHICH OF THESE EXAMS I SHOULD PREFER> WHAT R THE

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• 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…

  

  makes me just another fish out of water. I expect anonymity in Boston, but ... usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  . After three years of p-sets (which, by the end of last year, I was ... step in the project was to establish a set of constraints such that a ... operating temperature of 38 C. I was kind of happy about the prospect of not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  would be in custody of my younger brother, which, okay yeah I can see why ... , the more I recognized the archetypal loneliness of American suburbia in ... are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  dorm was that I had a lot of friends there, especially in Chocolate City ... fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... of the semester, almost like a freshman all over again. I was in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  lot of TV. So, in the spirit of Advent calendars*, I'm going to ... , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  of the most competitive public high schools in the city. Because she ... daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the ... through a book of Sudoku puzzles. For as long as Cristen can remember, she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006