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  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  misty background of my mental landscape. Knowing me, it really is one or ... , or a once gushing rapid into which I've thrown a whole bunch of objects ... writing is concise and takes time, or at least a round of editing. But

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  , and acceptance to the program is based on your completion of the prereqs ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence ... on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  on the Class of 2010 Brass Rat, it's much better than this. ... take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... is, you know, eclipsed. Therefore I am going to declare all my photos

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to ... the study of markets as a whole. It's a pretty good time to be ... what exactly is going on. 21M.460- Sabar Drumming Do any of you guys

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... constellations if you watch long enough. The best way to be there is on your back ... your pulse—you are not alone.) I longed to lay on carpet instead of the

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  of the MIT Class of 2012. We look forward to seeing you on campus next ... (driving in Boston is a piece of cake compared to driving in India) were SO ... learned to fly in: a G1000-equipped Diamondstar DA40. This one is kind of

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... essay is really an opportunity to focus on who you are and the ways in which you are likely to interact with other members of your campus

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to ... you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  the "big sister" of 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms), which I took ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... CPW), this is the last set of FPOPs I'll watch take place, the last year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  leave it at that. Its most heavily marketed capability is the ability to ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to ... features and is sponsored by tons of tech companies -- over 60 this year

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  stories we were yearning to tell. Each week, we focused on new aspects of ... inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have ... , what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a ... cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... -2008, the MIT Common Data Set (CDS), which is published by our office of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... call from an MIT senior who is going to be on Jeopardy! tonight. Pretty ... earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and ... in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you ... game too. One of the benefits of being at MIT is access to the MITAC ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  add any kind of toppings to. A fairly common story here is that while ... respond to surveys truthfully without fear of losing anonymity or otherwise ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to ... these profiles? Unless the schools to which one is applying have specific ... of access to admissions officers is the way of the future? What has

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... year. It is not hyperbole when I say that all of you are just so, so awesome. It is incredibly inspirational to read about you and see just how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American ... ungodly long paper about the symbolism of the whale or some such thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005