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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see ... I come home each night and tell my wife over dinner how lucky I am ... into committee with my colleagues, having narrowed down my top picks to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? "When I grow ... POLYMERS and CATS." Really. All I want to do is have my cat (and maybe ... have learned so much through my classes, but even more through the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the ... Self Help by Natasha B. '16 November 2015 What My College Essays Were [Not] by Phoebe C. '18 I never want to finish my P.E. requirement by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  , now I work here running this thing, and my office is off main campus so ... 've made my triumphant - but temporary - return to the blogs because 1 ... Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  at MIT, I have to say that the three weeks spent with my host family was a huge boost to my speaking skills. Hearing the words spoken often helped my pronunciation, and having several long conversations exclusively

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this ... lectures though is that they're taught by famous chefs and food experts. My ... to over the cooling process. Unfortunately, my ability to remember what

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  cool content over the next few months, and I'll do my best to share most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs from this past semester (the MITx supplemental video-making one), I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  mentioned from my last blog, I took 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) this ... in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a ... ... (Photo credits to my fellow blogger and mini-me Michael C '16) As I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  so. I know my mom immediately jumped on board with MIT and even became ... ; 2014 Cena a Las Seis   My mom with other Latina parents and ... : me and my family. Right side: my friend Will '17 and his family.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that argument. Instead, I’ll start with a thought that passed through my ... walk of life. As one of my NASA supervisors told me over the summer ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then ... may or may not be quantifiable. If you're curious, my friend Rachel R ... first place, because I was definitely too awkward to raise my hand and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

      Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit ... 't reasonably expect for my body to endure another one of those hazy and hungry ... sun rise over my favorite Charles river and create scintillating

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my ... was Stark Industries (ok, well, atleast my favor). MIT's Commencement speeches are always some of my favorites because the speaker usually boils

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... community, and set my cron file to run it every three hours. TL;DR: @mitblogs ... organism:   Professor Murder and Oxford Collapse were probably my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... while now. The decision that the FCC makes will have a large impact on my ... quickly risen through the ranks of my favorite classes this year. Every

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... was a major difference since my CPW: THE EVENTS DIDN’T GO PAST 2 AM. At ... 's expensive." I’ve changed my mind since then, and think it is a genuinely

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on a very inclined treadmill. I paid for my improper shoes / insufficient stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013