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  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  sciences. It’s completely undergraduate-run, but produced with support from ... interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really ... , arts and social sciences program. It was recently named among the top 3

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  . This past Friday, SMASH hosted an event titled "We Are MIT," and it was ... presentation, and eventually a piece of writing about my thoughts about it ... information was/is. Anyway, back to the We Are MIT event. Overall, I think it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  lounge. It may feel somewhat eerie the first time you go down there (maybe it's just a basement thing), but after being officially involved on the LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... month at MIT- IAP! If being relaxed and useless stresses you out, it ... ; it's been a great introductory class since I don't come from a strong

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  downtime on December 31st, it seems that most students were able to ... posts by Labs and others (because it's worth repeating): As mentioned in this post - it is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... . Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... main page, you can find it two places: the personal archive of the blogger who wrote it, or the general information pages accessible by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for ... neurobiology lab for not pre-registering for it before July. Normally, you pre ... didn't pre-register for it until I figured out my schedule in mid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  It's been nearly three months since I graduated MIT. With the freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won ... an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  12.5% "blogger admit rate," it was almost as hard to be selected as a blogger as it was to be selected for MIT this year (11.9%)! Before we ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is ... is to focus on direct relief to its victims.” Present at the lecture ... videos about his story. It’s really tragic, and the fact that we don’t hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that ... the brush into a local classroom for about five weeks to see how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  : Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... ninety minute final, open book, open note final exam in cell biology. It

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... time to the Berkeley area, so it was all new to me. First Stop: Cafe ... . Don't knock it until you try it. Although, I also acknowledge that if I

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  : Dog, it was just okay for me. You want me to keep it real, right? Alright, it just didn't work. The curriculum was just too big for you. You ... . Simon: When you do math in public, how do people generally react? Is this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  you can figure out how to do it without making them mad. Usually. 21M ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the ... not when it comes right after the else command?) so I'm not really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  Can't Deny It" and "Breathe," and you may know Lloyd Banks from 50 Cent's crew G Unit. While there are always awesome concerts in Boston, it ... , "The piano drop was first enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be ... evaluations. I'll also be taking 5.60 (Thermodynamics and Kinetics), because it ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  'll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I've grown to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... recall how the topic came up, but as we were talking, I was applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004