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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found ... them! Nobody had a good answer to how they ended up where they are, but ... . There isn't one path to a goal—just a general movement towards it. The

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... knew it was going to be cold. I had packed my tried-and-true winter gear ... pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  "everything" has just changed as the word "change" has: it now means "no change") so quickly that it literally surpasses my belief, charges right past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to ... psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... aerial trapeze, in that they are both solid objects hanging from ropes. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  ^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... how cool and entertaining everything was I remember her looking me dead

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our ... Hunt is underway, and for our team, it's so far, so good... more updates ... ... congrats to those who got it! COOKIE MONSTER by Marcy Levey, Brian Tivol

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... ….why did I come here? 1. tO eXplOrE It is often said that “college is the ... hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  arising tomorrow. "Hi, it's nice to meet you - the gravitational force ... good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  is awesome but it doesn't match up to authentic Taiwanese cuisine ... back to Next House. Here's what Next House looks like right now. It ... (incidentally, the existence of ice puddles for some reason surprised me--it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a dream you’re reminded of after waking—how the back-and-forth of our voices ... of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It’s ... only five minutes long, and took at least 12 hours just to film! I still

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  Williams College. Long before I became politically conscious, he told me a ... couldn’t locate Tibet on a map. It seems comical, even absurd, that ... its independence. Indeed, I first found that story funny. With time

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  projects. It looked something like this: [caption id="attachment_55896" align="aligncenter" width="800"] google doc from high school[/caption] It ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  would say Kirkland, Washington. It's where I've spent most of my life ... if you're ready to accept it as one (cheesy, yes, but also true ... luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  's Kosher: Yummy Kosher deli/restaurant. It really hits the spot. 500 Harvard ... ; dinner. The best of its kind around. 1595 Washington St Boston, MA T: #1 ... food. Don't miss the Kaddo (pumpkin), it's to die for. 143 1st St

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  them. sometimes it was because i was busy doing something else. but most of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i ... that's like the successor to firehose. it's still something i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... was tired, I don't regret a second of it.  I love learning more about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014