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  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on how you guys are doing by calling all 390 of the early admits (sometimes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too early to know anything about the waitlist, the Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a movie derail me from that. I was thinking about how no colleges ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  enticing it is, and how it makes you want to stay, and i wanted to stay ... middle school, I learned how to ride a bike there, feeling the wind blow ... lot where I first learned how to drive, and the route I practiced over

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  will struggle to make friends. If you filter everyone you meet by how ... Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will ... or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  attention to how many sentences Stewart usually grants a guest on his show ... &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were in Montana, how many little communities. Next to Montana are Washington ... to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  and running, now you need to know how to use it! Next up is assembly ... code translates to actual binary, and then you learn how to wrangle all ... code a bubble sort algorithm using assembly. You'll also learn how to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... and support that so many people provided in order to make this the success that it was. To most of you, this puzzle probably ranged somewhere

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride ... some serious heat.  (according to accuweather it peaked at 108 ... -Yale-MIT trip to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, driving all the way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT ... getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  still some areas that need to be touched up, and I need to figure out how ... What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was ... that I want to take, classes that I find interesting. August is exciting

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... about lab and about how these past few weeks in Bhatia Lab have taught me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  ? But also, I'm not sure how much I actually want to change this. Back ... Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last ... told me that they appreciated hearing my laughter. I was surprised by how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build something completely different altogether. When I speak to Sanatan… I don’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep ... ’s beloved sky bison, which he could have used as bait to capture Aang ... years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ~feelings~ and understand really my position. if i had to label my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019