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  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  tongue-tied when I told her how close I was to him. I didn't even ... It's not very often that you see someone like Tenzin Gyatso, better known as His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. Not just because he's a Nobel

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this year, and we can all connect the dots on what that means. (I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  badly, the more I found excuses not to paint, because I just didn't want ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a 5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  other universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match ... "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide ... This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... residents yesterday. I feel compelled to note here how AWESOME EC is. If I'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public ... directionally challenged approaching-twenty-two-year-old who didn’t know how to ... .  Balance  The hardest part of the summer was figuring out how to balance

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the ... -y - maybe it's that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it's that we ... your hand. Now combine it. See how much imaginary fun you're having? I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  during this whole process, in order to show your constituents how calm you ... characters into the mix, suddenly your goals are not nearly so easy to achieve ... , learning how to fit everything together or actually writing their first game

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared ... because of the somewhat disappointing fact that I'm not actually able to ... 'll have to set aside just because it's not really possible to juggle

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  will not be online to tweet about it. Because that’s not how real life ... media images and how brands did it. Then we had to create our own goals ... during a stressful semester. We’re all figuring out how to project a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  alone, and we think that is great. You do not need to submit a portfolio ... ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the ... the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  . Not much of a story, but I had to share it because it highlights the ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion ... . Personally, I am working on my thesis, learning how to code better (for my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling ... -year-old a short bus ride away. One day, while I was explaining how to add ... . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  tearing my place apart, I could not find it, and I had days to order a new ... told me DT was open to everyone (not in a “everyone who is good enough ... visit during Orientation (we did not). Disorientation tends to be at the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  'm not just saying this to say it, I'm saying it because I just had a ... 's distracting me from 2.004 studying). Here's how it started, with an e-mail to ... entrepreneurs to present their pitch, and anyone who's not presenting can question

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  , applying to college - it's a lot to handle, and I remember very well how juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... handle, especially if you're applying to MIT. But you're not alone, and you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  , Elizabethtown, but not from Elizabethtown to Harrisburg"), so I thought I'd share ... should be difficult to guess but not impossible--some good examples from ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  's oddly gotten harder, not easier, over time. But today, I just wanted to ... not leave my table, told me they were going to hack my laptop to let ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  thanked Carl for his company. I'm not sure how to think about my day. It ... outreach. The purpose of public outreach is not to just emerge from our labs ... eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013