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  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 / About Decisions

  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 / 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 / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 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
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this ... down upon people who are unable or unwilling to dedicate most of their ... decision about whether to go to MIT. On each of the seven dorm tours I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... work out for you, or it might not. But it IS much easier to take the AP ... . If you have a 5 on one of the AP English exams, or pass the Freshman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  Experimental Biology). I glance at my watch, which of course is on my computer ... reminds me of my to-do list, which is in my to-do notebook, which is ... , which I like better in a lot of ways, except it's missing a desk, which

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer ... of this New Yorker issue), a digital object is overlaid on the screen ... Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  ="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive ... and ways of life. There is also focus on Black women and queer ... head to a lecture or museum. The variety of museums in Brazil has proven

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• 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

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  computational research project after the other. Which is to say, I know how to ... how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  , but it's better to keep you in suspense, right? 9. According to one of ... conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the ... , I just find it to be a little bitter, which may make me a supertaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what ... his entire SoundCloud. Here is one of my favorites: Joe wants to show ... , which is fine, because there are many ways to skin a rabbit (and besides

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  . Simply put, the goal is to land beanbags onto the wedges (one point), or ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... missionaries (they're awesome). He spotted some of the other missionaries on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  , and textile systems. His office is home to many of these devices and it ... .72), where students work in groups of three or four working to solve a problem ... . His goal is for students to learn the process of engineering synthesis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006