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• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on ... rank, or anything else that is likely to show up elsewhere on the ... idea for me to mention it there as well, or is it better to place another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... can run 43 miles per hour, which is much faster than I can pedal my bike ... . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  's written so well—the idea is to let the readers fill in the feelings of the ... disciplines—one of the comics is currently taped to my physics professor’s door ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  genuine. I'm so happy that he is on the faculty of a place like MIT. Hearing ... people to dress up as the cast of Hey Arnold! or The Magic School Bus for ... to dressing up as the cast, which is a genuis idea I've had since high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit ... responded with "I have some bad news for you..." to which I felt some concern ... [email protected], which is a mailing list that contacts primarily East Campus (my previous

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  of! Going on vaca Adam and I are going to the Bahamas tomorrow and ... want to take it your sophomore year, you'd better take 5.111/2 fall of ... major in biology or in any other department which requires a lot of bio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an ... is best. If it's on the other side of campus, though, you're probably ... going to say about decisions. MIT is a just place - a set of buildings

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  ="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is ... location of the MIT Museum[/annotation] and [annotation note='Which is ... addition to being an amazing work of art, is also culturally contiguous to an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  is a barren wasteland. And I have nothing before 1pm on Thursday or ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... 's called pancake night (because we didn't want to step on the toes of an ... is great, but it also feels amazing to be able to do something on a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  in harmony on my first flight of sophomore year and 2) it is keeping me ... Dora the Explorer is coming to town, or something, but if that's true I ... combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  year MIT solicits nominations for Institute awards, one of which is the ... suicides, one of which early on I was very personally affected by. He took ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine ... burns agricultural waste to make charcoal, which is an inexpensive way to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... . Period. This is just a fact of life which I've known since I was a little ... ratio was insane, which was sort of impressive, but that's not to say I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when ... of those different aspects. So a part of my homework is to cuddle with ... anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... . I thought it would be better to hone my intelligence in one or two ... to worry about it in the first semester, which is pass/no record.) It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of ... impossible not to notice the tremendous amount of resources that MIT is pouring ... our professor, Amy Smith, reminds us of as we work on our projects is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  his talk was that it is important to have an accurate definition of what a gene is because of our newfound reliance on computers to find them ... antisense RNAs, many of which have no start codons or classical open reading

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  attending a Netflix premiere red carpet in the heart of LA. Or sitting on a ... just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking of what will be and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023