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  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  MIT Distinguished Scholarship Office. The Rhodes application is (dare I ... You don’t need me to tell you that the college application process is ... game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  spoon. This is how we do science at MIT, folks. Well, everybody in the ... he is now. It's hard when someone accumulates more titles than you know ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  -defined, somewhat abstract, and entirely distracting. This is a more fleshed out ... while ago. So without further ado (keeping in mind that this is all very ... general rationing problem in which some people must lose out on what is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree ... difference between my life at home and my life at MIT is truly astounding ... most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  list at MIT for free food, there is also a mailing list for free ... up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  of color ... so it's not just me, having one bad incident! This is ... also you start going into the realm of disparate impact. Is this ... leanings of a space like MIT. We're definitely looking at the social impact

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  *. Arts at MIT is also hosting this spring's Hip-Hop Lecture Series. Young ... concrete buildings as you walk from MIT Medical where you've just had blood ... here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  fill out your I-9 Form, which is what you need to be able to work for MIT ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... hypothesis Metaphysics of saint thomas aquinas Is the mind a machine Kolmogorov ... in? Fainting Goats Nomadic Cultures of the World How Tea is made Why

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  Hello! My name is Natnael Getahun, but please call me Nat. I'm your ... tornado, and no, the education is not as bad as “Inherit the Wind” would have you believe. Kansas is a wonderful place for those looking for a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  , so I don't think this is particularly relevant to MIT life...but hey, I ... Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I ... ). Wow, it really shows what kind of MIT student I am over this last year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... Stephen Dubner, he received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. His

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... queer at MIT and in Senior Haus. We discussed resources on campus, like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven't been ... semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... masterpost about dance at MIT... I started learning choreographed dances when I ... I care about. this is why I have three YouTube playlists of dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is ... general existentialism.[annotation note="he is also taking the Chinese ... Chinese reading cards and there is a final video project presenting a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... misconceptions that MIT is easy when you study biology, but at the same time it ... only / you won't be lonely / even if the sky is falling down" 6:14 AM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  . (This is the most stereotypically MIT thing I can possibly think of, and I ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters ... abbreviated “MIT” has more or less eclipsed its expanded form. With 3 characters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023