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  See You Later

  

  research lab on the planet. And I can return, at the end, to the job which I ... privacy on networked social intermediaries. When I came to MIT Admissions, I frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  survive. Is it my duty to give back in some way? I was big on duty in high ... , apparently, is a lot of much bigger questions. Questions like, “what does it ... because I like knowing stuff (which is still true) but because I had a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer ... ) Space is, for lack of a better word, neat[3]. Last semester, in 8 ... referred to as an octopus: lots of arms, not always working in sync or clear

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday ... family’s better parties. You can do these sorts of things when you don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  country, or even allow people to think on a more national level. This ... free-market so to speak, but that may be corrected with a bit of ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about ... application....is it helpful to send a possible design of a perpetual motion machine (which may be flawed) that I have worked on, just to show my passion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... options can be hard on both sides. That can be emotional. To those of you ... This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the ... itself focuses primarily on the computation aspect of the course- teaching ... happened to be leading up to our first exam, which we’re allowed to bring in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... , or both. Even so, I know that having time to do things that I like is a ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... hips to the hokey-pokey. (he doesn't know this video is on the ... It's about to go down Dorothy is rockin' it, but still all alone on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  small talk, which is something that I thought I’d gotten better at, and I ... Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... Gregor Convenience, or MacCon) which is open until 2 AM every night. As you might ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... moving at all, so I held off on doing any this year. this IAP, to be better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny ... . Once you register on MyMIT, you will be ready to begin the application ... with each recommendation letter. Also note that MIT is not a member of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... , not recitations and office hours, which would add a crapton of hours to ... 'm not fond of, it is pretty difficult for anything to come out. Luckily

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  to. The cherry on top of this weird, informally-dressed sundae is that ... wasn't planning on wearing a tie. Is he secretly trying to tell me to ... formality is a cornerstone of Japanese culture, but this doesn't seem to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  didn’t compromise on substance or truth. i felt endlessly drawn to their ... moment very few of them feel like magic to me (the main exception is 6.2540 nanotechnology: from atoms to systems, which is why i am enrolled in the class

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

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  Cambridge, either to UROP on campus or to live with friends and work remotely ... of my friends were staying, or to the Boston Commons and the area ... have only gone out to Boston or taken the T a handful of times. I try to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE ... to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry ... scientist to take a sample of a substance and figure out the structure of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... each other if we want to fire spin. :p The cost of poi is nontrivial but ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016