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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... intellectually -- and it is another thing to go somewhere and witness this fact

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions ... devising these potentially senseless punt puzzles. It all began when I ... , what you have before you, folks, is a punt puzzle. I don’t know how easy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  required. Our task, as we see it, has been to consider how the Institute may ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... once we know it; we'll likely make that announcement on the blogs late

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  good economic reason, why and how viral content goes viral, and so on--it ... with Valve, Beyoncé with Beyoncé. But it's actually the case that ... means long meetings with production staff to determine the feel and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers ... your application less than two weeks ago, don't worry about it ... in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony Hall looks when it is not so yucky outside. Here's the beautiful ... for which he has composed was approximately 35 lines long. Here's what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can ... MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  this semester, in which we learn about what's taught at Sloan and how it ... advanced hip hop one and it’s a great time! it’s also only an hour-long ... [/annotation] and maybe having an incredible experience here and there, but it's being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between ... ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... ) – instead, I found myself missing forced family dinnertime (no matter how busy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  's how we have the freedom to write honestly about what it's like to be an ... ; i don't know the details. but it's difficult for me to understand how ... the right to know what data is collected about them, how it is analyzed

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  adequate enough to describe how cold this water was. It was freezing. Arctic ... Puffs and Lucky Charms. Cereal and I have such an involved long-term relationship that it doesn't even know I'm cheating on it with Cold Pizza

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme ... to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  tried to think how to solve it. I was exhausted when I walked through the ... to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  ![/caption] in retrospect it’s almost comical how closely my struggles with ddr and ... corresponding arrows reach the top of the screen; you get points based on how well ... gameplay i learned how to keep myself centered on the pads without looking at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  things as seemingly objective as motion or time are influenced by how one ... ,000 feet in the air, you feel deceptively little motion; you'd only know it by looking out the window. As long as you're sitting, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  thing, that I only knew how well I did after it was all over. That day ... shots. It doesn't matter how close the rest of the shots were, if there ... 't need to be there to guess how it made me feel to see so many holes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020