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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... just sitting there, trying to ignore the incessant Beach Boys music they ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  the cheerleading squad to see if I could get anybody else's summer plans. Since nobody on the squad responds to emails, I got four five responses ... can't wait to watch trashy VH1 countdowns and hear English all around me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... MIT student. I think the reason this question comes to mind are ... began taking steps to remedy the situation. 2. The Larry Summers thing. 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... there's tremendous economic pressure to suck you away from what is perhaps ... if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore ... to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  schools who email with the question: "What now? I don't know what to do." My ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... hearts go out to those students and their families who have been affected

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  John Cloutier are supposed to meet with MIT President Susan Hockfield to discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to ... Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... House’s dog) roaming the hallways. But we have plenty of cool stuff to ... , silly me – I forgot to introduce myself! Hey there, little guy. I’m Andi

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel ... to name; that's okay, too. We have posted more information on next

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022