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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  how to play! I'm also growing my annual IAP beard. I hate facial ... of IAP. I guess. I can't think of how to end this entry... well, I can ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  I'm going to do things backwards today, and start with... Responses to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how ... questions. How long does IAP last? And do you only get to do one activity

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to submit their
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  you had ever seen before, and did not tell you how to start or what to ... you had to write computer-words to tell a computer how to help you ... -surprised by how easy it was to give Up-Goer Five names to these groups of hard

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which ... 's alright now, fortunately."]we lost Jonathan at mile 32 to some hip flexor ... and up the sides of roads, through the heat of the mid-afternoon to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  fun this semester and a one-shot-deal, but it just goes to show how ... too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  a group picture or two to remember just how awesome this all was ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until Monday, but until then, have an awesome weekend! Are we going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times right. I need a

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing ... bigger and bigger thing these days, and we’re super stoked to be pushing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... use them, learn how to here. But consider what Kurt Vonnegut said: “Here ... Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education ... about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal conversion of turkey offal to see how the project was coming along. Since Andy ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  compound reactions or how to build rockets - and we want everyone else to be ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling ... option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  're obligated to blog about it. Me: Definitely! But how can I construe it as ... responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  wrong with it.) I learned how to use a power drill and table saw at the ... was that studying engineering taught you how to solve problems, and isn ... train me to think analytically about systems – both how to design them and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I don't know how I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm terrified. I really ... I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020