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• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  . In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... went to Flirting 101, because I could. I mean, how can you not? All of ... his pictures are better. In the end, I learned enough to receive a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  time. I'm working my first in person internship, a real corporate job ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... , [SCREAM] My internship requires I live in San Francisco. I...was not known

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I ... expressions, Prof Mahajan suggests that we can, in fact, measure the entropy of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... . If you can't find the few minutes it would take to do this, may I ... students, you are the lifeblood of the reading process. And I can't tell you

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire ... Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I ... 't think I've seen a snake that big, except maybe in the zoo. Or in the first ... back in the day, when a little green tree snake slithered over my foot. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  raising at least $400. In general, I'm not that great at fundraising because ... Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a ... bunch of folds to run overnight, and went home. I got into the office in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  front. there are plans in place to advance the game: but i can't get too ... Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter ... consistently as long as i'm still in the game. my strategy is more or less to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Last week, I blogged about 7.00: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my ... play tic-tac-toe. I entered it in a science fair and won a prize. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory. Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , last pset, last lecture, etc). I can’t help but feel a bit displaced ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

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

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had ... , filling in every inch of nothingness. I had become pain incarnate. Full of

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  kid in question is the aforementioned Mr. Dukach. The LSC website ... readers may remember that last year around this time I attended a free sneak of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  feeling stupid. avoiding embarrassment as in: i worried that if i changed my ... feeling stupid as in: changing my mind twice felt like i was going in ... because i say the same thing each time, but every time i feel like i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my ... sure they would be worth less in total than this microscope.) I wish I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005