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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... every time they visit your dorm: last week it was a piece of hair, this time an ounce of blood. Neither of you decide to question why this is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... , traveling. Our mission: to let the speakers know every time a minute passed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... talked your ears off about IAP, but it’s such a fun time to do whatever you ... undergraduate class, they really dedicate a lot of time to preparing the lectures

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you ... ’d then take this container, go to another part of the dining hall, give it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... charged with the job of finding the ne'er-do-wells. The next day

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  had a lot of time to plan, there were still many, many blunders and ... least, was a part of the royal family that brought about a great deal of ... was and that is the majority of his time on Avatar. Focus on three

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  find the description (or even the entire course) online. So, instead of ... beverages. I’m taking this class as part Media Arts and Sciences (MAS), which

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible, it was really really hard. But, when it was time to leave campus there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  . Preferably Italian style. Panko didn't really work the time i tried them. Pan ... believe Lydia specifically means the time we bought a beef tenderloin and ... into eating steadily rawer beef each time until their opinions improve

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... when I was at MIT (on the crew) and on top of that I had a job, did ... and Baltimore last month, thanks for your time and your attention and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload ... unexpectedly long time to wear off, maybe because it coincided with other starts ... should invite the upside down gnomes some time. But that would just be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because I didn't think I'd have that much time to shop once I got there, which ... parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  be admitted to that particular university at that particular time. In fact, in a certain sense you could say that our job, as an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  . -- Two Busy Weeks, part 1 I soon found out that time raced at MIT, as ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying ... time to return to MIT, and I was pretty excited. I had already formed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of growth for me, and a big part of my goal in becoming a math major. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state ... ="The difference between the lightest and darkest parts of the image."]dynamic range

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  standardized test taker. He took the SAT I three times, and even after the third time, his best combined score was a 710 in math and a 690 in verbal ... that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other ... ;           Spent an ungodly amount of time

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time ... ’ve found two short-term (and vaguely connected) jobs to fill these few weeks ... ’ve worked with several times on Dramashop student productions here. After a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the ... looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014