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  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... no idea what you can afford. Choose wisely, because time is money ... 'll have the time to visit 10 schools? Choose wisely, because money is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  children. And now it's time for a short story about my hair. Sometime around ... Javert in Les Miserables. Had I let my hair grow out the whole time, it ... --most people stick with the same barber all the time, and she knew exactly how I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 tries. (And we're not talking "if you applied 3 times" here. I think applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... rediscover tales as old as time and songs as old as rhyme. We don't mind if you ... brightly colored objects at people? Doing it at the same time as fifteen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  only swap two adjacent wires at a time. Let’s do another example. We ... . I find this kind of math really interesting. Part of it is because it’s the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  can see from the slides, the talk was pretty basic, in large part ... , I awoke at 3AM local time, which makes sense because I'm pretty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  real as anything I knew at that time. Two years later I felt pulled ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a ... were and are doing really cool work. but at the time I was so confused

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my ... friends. i never get time to watch TV during the semester, so it was wild to ... , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my ... any time to appreciate it all before I plunged deep into the pits of ... and molecular bio, so 7.015 is a good time and I like that it's a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  thus, half the amount of time. Sometimes, that just means you have a “half” class the entire semester. Other times, as in this case, it just ... first half, so by the time my other classes start ramping up and final

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  's been a long time since I've gone through the admissions process so I ... 're talking free money). A lot of times the actual payment is much lower than ... account. _____ It's time for Brown to talk now, and time for me to look

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  cardinal numerical order, I will start with #2. Around this time of year, an ... selection of friends at some random time in the middle of the night and ask ... friends. John emailed me about this a few times, and I promised him that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!

  

  It's going great!!! More pictures and quotes and all the good stuff coming soon. I'll let you know that part of today's challenge involved me eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips. Needless to say, I

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What was the biggest surprise? What would you tell those who couldn't attend? For those of you who couldn't make it: What would you like to know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the ... , mostly just having the time to eke out a few spare sparks of metal from the rest (but in due time). So again I walked across the city on my worn feet

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  [annotation note="The username that stays with you the entire time you ... perfectionist (as evidenced by the number of times I have started, scrapped, and ... transfer applications in my Simmons dorm room. The heads of house at the time

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the ... [annotation note='If I had a nickel for every time a Course 9 MIT Admissions

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the ... rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to ... ’ve spent my fair share of time on Tumblr as a teen, and I went through a dark

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  out like seventeen times already.   early November. I was ... time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that we didn’t have time to walk down the wrong basement hallway on the way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  Room account using a different email address for each account. Note: at the time ... time in the shop does not mean you must submit a maker portfolio. But if ... way. Second, they help reviewers better manage their time. (As much as

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021