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  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  her to know how much I had earned from art commissions. “Is it more ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... -of-potential, most densely packed with everything that was me, but it never seemed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the ... children is so rare on a college campus that it's refreshing to see them ... warm days of spring. It's probably my favorite annual event in the area

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  events are happening during CPW! If you want to learn how to be gay@MIT or ... events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  , MIT fought against discrimination among its female faculty, inspiring ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar ... MIT had its own campus! - more here). This post continues the series of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow, from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... in front of it, and the Harvard Bridge is on the right behind the trees

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  of your personality are you most proud of, and how has it impacted your ... likely lag behind it. While snow, in moderation, is a cause for celebration, in excess it can be catastrophic. Millions of people are without

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it ... there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize how many books there are until you see them, here are some pictures to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... can find mistakes and learn how to fix them," he said. Kubber has been ... knows it will be an adjustment. "Now, I'm a big fish in a small pond," he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  (before chickening out after seeing how psycho all the Ben Stiller ... was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... over the summer. So far, I have taken beginner tennis. That's it. They

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  admissions process, brutal though it may be, does a great job picking people ... despite our bleeding GPAs and unfinished psets. It was a little like ... , most people who make it through this place. My calls only made it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  count the number of people who watch the webcast, it is the most attended ... the competing teams; I also expect you will learn how one of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of ... changes. How one chooses to display data could very well affect what ... overview of how to best organize and display data to gain valuable insights

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  from the r/Jeopardy subreddit     Also, it is Because ... good questions like "how did you get so fresh?" and "what is knowledge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  and how it will change under the next administration. In late November ... that "Whatever may change in Washington... it will not change the values ... outlining institutional policies regarding undocumented students at MIT. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  how quickly these past two years have flown by... Around this time last ... life =P This year, as many of you know, MIT celebrated its 150th

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... shoot me an email, and I can forward it on to her. Watch the videos! You

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  adjectives that show you how cool this event was! And the BEST part is, I got to dress up for it!! (Me in my new red dress con mi novio; Photo

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  understand each of these brain regions--what exactly they do, how they do it, and how they arise in development--as well as looking for other special ... meritocracy. At MIT no one cares what you look like, how you dress (to put it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010