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• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... , working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and ... memories". In this case, specifically recalling the day you found out you got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  There are no directions in Japan. The buildings are numbered, but in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  Hi!! I've been super busy over the past few weeks with various final ... theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an ... language developed by two guys from the Media Lab (naturally...). So instead

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning all the physics I learned freshman/sophomore year, starting a week ago

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Pass/No Record is not an excuse to slack off and not learn the basics - it's a chance to adjust to MIT and learn the study habits you'll need for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  Beginning this weekend, MIT will be going on the road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  minutes ago and writing the first 2 lines of this entry, I remembered another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to squeeze it into the margin. I hope you'll notice that I actually added a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I've faced since the summer ended: living off campus. I lived in the East ... apartments in Boston, the wheels starting turning in my head, and I joined the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom ... 'm pretty sure she was joking, for some reason the idea stuck with me. Over the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  (mostly because you deny them), until the night before your exams hit. At this point, there's no cure except fervent studying and the occasional swearing that you'll do better next time (unfortunately, the illness becomes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... if I sit around and wait for the news, the world around me isn't going ... , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... out curiosity, how does one join RingComm? Towards the end of your freshman year, the freshman class council will email the class, asking for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... freshman exams were the easiest ones." "Let's hope so!" "I could go in there ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... well-informed. Among the top practical things I've learned as an MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni ... can apply to up to 3 positions in the San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington metropolitan areas. Also, the Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... was funded by the Cathy M. Comeau Memorial Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005