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  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... willing to snag a cot for you to sleep on, which means you won't have to lug ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  row way on the other end of the room. I want to interject here and say ... next to the Page lab on the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute, so I ... end is on the outside of the cell and the anime group end is on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  feeling whenever you push or publish something, is terribly valueless to you ... blogger now, but he's worried a couple of times that focusing on math is ... is nowadays. Advertising MIT to you on its own admissions site? I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  pset (work on problem sets) which shows that the white boards really help ... . Each dorm at MIT has a distinct culture and feel (which is why MIT allows ... that is a blend of the other dorms' cultures here. The diversity is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  , or to a tree, which could probably be cut down if someone was really ... locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... " sticker on it. I continue to yank. 3. Victory! The lock comes off! 4

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  which is a replacement for existing light bulbs or fluorescent lights that ... neuroscientist focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first ... President is expected to begin his remarks around 12:30pm Eastern time. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be ... wasted. Since this is on the admissions blog and it is December, some of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  going okay. Not as good as I wanted them to be, but I said I was on top of ... 's not exactly true, but I do have things that I need to do, none of which ... 'm tired of skating from week to week, telling myself that I'm on top of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  me, so I'm sticking with that title. I mean, it's not on my resume or ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... makes me really feel like everything is going to be ok I Like Me Better ... song with a chaotic night in which one of my closest friends on my floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  in STEM and chemical engineering, MIT was on her list of schools to ... , she will go out of her way to connect them to resources available on ... that she answers truthfully regardless of whether the answer is good or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  told they are only admitted to colleges because of their race, gender, or ... . We care so much that many of us have tried to explain this on the blogs ... aware of the impact that an admittance to MIT can have on a student’s life

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  have stumbled on somehow. Gon's face is quite relatable 9/13/21 One of ... semester, another class I took was 24.917, which is "How to Construct a ... chance to start, better luck next time. 9/25/21 I lacked many pictures on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  required to put more focus on the academic preparation of the applicants ... advice is to ask colleges directly how much weight they place on ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  better in jello"? Now's your chance to prove yourself on the field of ... of giant cards). Today while my code is running I am continuing to ... REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their ... One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when ... essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  set of Avatar, if it had a set, that is. Once we returned to camp and ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the ... group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... we have two hefty 5 week breaks to revise all this material, which is ... with Ernesto we've decided to plan the whole trip today. This is a day of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they ... couple of courses here on materials which talk about different properties ... end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is ... . Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013