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  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  other 17's. It was my first time on the other side. My turn to tell the ... the 2019's, halfway through MIT myself.   2016 - as a Junior I ... Student Gathering as a student. I tried to impart on the 2021's everything

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  answer the class of 2020’s questions, and Kevin and I got to show up on ... everyone on the outside. You get to hear people’s dreams, you get to see ... . From a blogger to the greatest people ever, Thanks Guys. P.S. It really

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  croissants with your anxiety. These activities do have intrinsic value. There’s beauty in the slope of a curve and the grandeur of Paris. However, it’s ... ! Yale! MIT! Fortunately, you can pause the game during the summer. It’s

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  agreements with MIT’s detachment, so we have several students in our detachment ... Studies (AS for short) (it’s not actually about aerospace), we learn about ... year to year: freshman year it’s learning, sophomore year it’s preparing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  witch and ate Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans and even Drooble’s Best ... most elaborate, but to me it’s still the most exciting! Additionally ... Night Market, an event held by MIT’s Chinese Students’ Club, Asian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  again. We patiently waited through an introduction to Stoke’s Theorem (to ... snowfall of the year, just in time for Thanksgiving Day. Wednesday’s weather ... relatively tropical Boston winter at the top of this year’s list of things to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  who’s just about to start the college application process, which might be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little ... me, but MIT is a reach school for everyone and it’s difficult to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly ... balance work, friends, sleep, exercise, etc., a skill that’s just as vital ... , and as of January 2014, there’s a Stanford Med student blog too!! I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  least not officially. Come on MIT, what is that? It’s breaking tradition ... -neon-game-faces, we scootered our way to viCTory.   Garrett S. '17, Andres A ... , Christina S. '14, Cosmos D. '15, Hesham '15, and Alison O. (GRT)   As a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a pleasure to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ESP classes here and here. This year’s 266 Spark classes included ... sends the completed protein product to the Golgi apparatus, the cell’s ... we extract it from a vegetable or fruit. Here’s all that in vivid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post and Michael C. '16's post about yesterday's events.  Also, see Chris ... friend Ali F. '16's hair and it came out great :) I also dyed my hair with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of ... on, work to be done, and I feel, especially after this year, that it’s ... throw you for a loop, but it’s ok to make mistakes. If we didn’t make

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  message you want to get across in a strong and memorable way. And that’s why I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... and make it work in the world. " Now that’s a theme I can really stand

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  . p.s. I think even my iPhone is getting used to our new relationship ... MIT gives us a ring. p.p.s. to all the upperclassmen out there: don ... frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  prepared for such a monumental task as forecasting Europe’s future in ... the heart of its citizens. There’s the gentleman who spared me ... out the nearest elevator. There’s the person in the laundry room

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  The MIT Food and Agriculture Collaborative (MITFAC). What’s that, you ... to enhance MIT’s role in contributing to the broader discourse on ... ! Here’s Maisie speaking at TEDx Fruitvale   I learned a lot of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  you want and it’s going to feel so good. Imagine me sending good luck ... Singapore (It’s amazing how we managed to meet at another city half way around ... could barely sit still. The musical was magical and I swear Wicked’s

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad’s ... educations, it tends to cheapen an ethnic identity. It’s as though being

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing’s ... more serious. But that’s also when the real adventure begins. The first

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011