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  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE ... -up number that represents my vague opinion about how likely you are to be ... Sorry I've been MIA lately- I've been taking 2.670 (Intro to Machine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  ). We're now taking bets on how long it takes his MIT classmates to crack ... tapping into what he already knew about humans, like how to make them ... Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can ... lot of time thinking about you over the next few days. i wonder how all ... to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... place of its kind trying to come at diagnosis, treatment and prevention of ... really impresses me is the way MIT understands how a wonderful art exhibit

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  kinds of things appeal to them, and how do they interact with their fellow ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  down to our turkey dinner. Um, hello? How about we skip the hosing and go ... work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  brave. (Eli hoped to go from “Not knowing how a computer works at all to ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it out the door at 9:50, and made it to Astrophysics at 10:03. Our exam

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  ’t even remember how they’re related to us anymore. I’m just going to refer ... Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on ... those values are and how we strive to uphold them: as individuals, as ... about How To Make Friends™ and simply enjoyed their company. My views on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful ... ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo ... ’s something we’re really used to, because we'd already been twin blogging (as we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  rare opportunity, the world outside of Senior Haus got to see how lovely ... relating to what can be sensitive or private material, and students come here ... second, I’m really forgetful and can never remember to take photos

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... disposition's a little too chill for that now. We'll see how aforementioned ... might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a ... able to see how insane it was, but on national television, which makes it ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009