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  The reading season begins

  

  many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago ... each folders are the summary cards (or "E-3 cards," I have no idea why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... thought: “Why not blog about my life here in Cambridge, from my classes or extracurricular activities, to trips that I made around the UK?” In this way

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader ... to lose sight of your biggest dreams and your potential in making them

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to, and you yearn to be engulfed in it once again. It's something words can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... !), and gotten to coexist in the same room as the legendary Chris Peterson

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  those that were admitted - we hope to see you in the fall. For those whom ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, but we do plan to admit 26 students from the waitlist. Today, around 3pm

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  Back in March, I typed into our internship database: "california health internship." Little did I know that this would turn out to be an ... patients with no health insurance or only government-aided health insurance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application ... or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess what? Going to two meetings of the National Honors Society or the Physics

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let ... Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  speak to each other in German. But there are foreigners here too, a decent ... ;advantageous" for being recognized. But the decision to write in German wasn't ... way. That life is not constrained to the way it currently is in our

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  , or Codex in the team name to make them identifiable. But Putzazoo has ... [/caption] Come 2 PM or so, we gathered in a room to get our briefing for the parade ... solve in order to get the metameta for that island, or something like that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  .com, dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, or some crossword solver website. Every once in ... would allow me to rearrange the rows in a way that would give more ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who ... committee views the applications in, is it alphabetic or otherwise sorted ... the mail for a week or so after it was mailed (i.e. "lost in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital ... friend Waseem '07 introduced me to this little site he made, which has ... simple. Now if only it could help me wake up in time for my flight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to ... . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day ... from SIPB, Waseem '07. The video's been entered in the Linux Foundation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... , and I went to sleep. However, a pulsing pain in both of my feet kept me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a ... to be sent in, or could I just email the placements to you?" Yes, email ... just forgo the optional essay since I plan to send in a CD containing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  , or any sort of media, tends to do that.   One of my visits was also ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of ... the fact that working in the media industry, whether it's writing or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... some friends in office hours. 18.06 was pretty chill and it was nice to ... straightforward. In most of these cases, I was asking for my response to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020