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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  keeps me up at night. The Political Science department here is excellent ... Penny for Your Thoughts by Erick P. '17 Although of course you end up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  at the end, we picked up the menu and saw that for every piece left ... really, I was there for the food. When I went to IKEA growing up, my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of desperation. Each ... application game where people try to one-up other peoples' personal challenges

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  hits a minimum sometime during the weekend before starting up again. But ... circles that pop up on your screen. It has a learning curve, but once you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to ... , and they graciously let me tag along and help out. I helped them set up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  me I would soon wake up from this dream. I couldn’t sleep at night ... , this would’ve continued to be my bottled up secret. Typing this, even now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  ; Ultimately, not only did I end up learning how to use the gym, but I got a ... and it’s really cool picking up a new skill. When I started the class

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... Eliot Young were growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, family life revolved

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  -to-late April with an update on what you've been up to since our last contact ... interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and beyond if

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... that we have to study the material on our own, or attend make up lectures

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  knowing how to do things never stopped us before. Here's what I ended up ... kitchen over winter break, and picked up a few recipes. I tagged along with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  on takeoff, but he made a high-performance takeoff, pulling up just in ... biplane took a payload of pumpkins up over the fake town at the back of the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  up on the material I have missed. Being a part of the team has ... which case that was probably a really bad analogy. Our season wraps up

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  escalators reach over to their neighbors on the up escalators for high-fives as ... -person. We wrapped up the night by heading to Chinatown and sitting down for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  made a few other changes. We aged up Juliet. She is now a high school ... sure about it. But she is actually growing up in a college town, fair ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  update on what you've been up to since our last contact. You can also ... interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and beyond if

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  ("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... . In the morning, Mr. Potchatek got up on a table in the English pod with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  .] Frozen Dinnerable Things: Entree Chicken Drumellas (Nuggets) [I grew up ... ) [good for packing with lunches. I grew up drinking one of these every day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  resting up in preparation for all of your RA applications! We will be back ... deferred or those of you still finishing up your RA applications in time for

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... , dressed them up, transformed her living room into a stage + bar + music, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013