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• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels ... be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... forward to a mid-day cappuccino at the vending machine. Even the streets

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... public case for itself, to prospective students, with a strong message ... intellectual capital toward serving the nation and the world, especially in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... ). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... of going with a wax model. Steve Asles, his stand-in, attended and ... bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  it in a big way, I wouldn’t have come to MIT." As the poet Jessica ... giddy rush I felt in Alaska whenever my family would pull over into a ... day in Alaska, my family went on a guided three-mile hike within the

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... my interest in historical research. Fiction Workshop is a great class

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... make a big change in order to grow. But you should always have faith: you ... use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  sounds like a class you were supposed to take in high school, but, in fact ... and to think about these ideas in a comparative way is super interesting ... because I wanted to sing in a larger, more formal group, and because the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  . I wish there were ways that our society could find a way to enable ... we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... independent college admissions counselors. It was a great opportunity for me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  than gratitude” is a refrain commonly attributed to anne frank, but wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... online for over a year i’d have spent more time at in-person club meetings

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... . We generally let them out to roam in a large (but enclosed) section of ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  period of time, is almost certainly insufficient to beat a good team in the ... - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... Patriots would make a stop, and then have to punt; then, they would score

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... 're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really ... looks kind of neat, in addition to its engineering purpose of diminishing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  've covered. Meyer explained to me that that was a very inefficient use of my ... itself is taught in a flipped classroom style to maximize working on such ... Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... . The etymology of the word 'endure' traces to a 1382 English translation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  , and you make a good one--to try. You actually can be interested in the ... class, your professors talk about how you're going to use something in the ... know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025