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  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Yesterday's tie was red, and my subcommittee was McGregor (also MIT '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some ... Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either. We shared a hall with a few other physics classes, and it looked like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... , and not every path leads to your goal. At times the road will bend and twist and break, doing everything to throw you off its course. A storm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Pre-entry warning: I took the GRE this morning, and since I ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad ... ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative relaxation and down activity, I'm not entirely sure I’m ready for that). And two, summer is officially over. And with that, it is time to bid the 8

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the ... available: sports, board games, reading, and then there it was knitting. I was not much of an athlete and rather enjoyed the idea of being sedentary

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  and ward off test-taking anxiety. Quoting myself from a blog entry ... TA or professor would notice ink on my palm and think that I was trying to cheat, only one professor has ever noticed and said anything. He

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  students who did their undergraduate work at MIT (and has a different ... cheerleaders. Yes, our little world is very counterintuitive and topsy-turvy. You should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don’t have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to…

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and ... on math and science because it was one of those all-girls schools. Yes ... contagious, and thinking of myself as a scientist became second nature. So

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  at MIT. Sam's Mom and I are headed back for Boston tomorrow morning ... MIT guest in Harrisburg, an 800-pound butter sculpture, and, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... respect and care with which we will treat your application during selection ... and black.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ..."]that's when I sat down[/annotation] with two chemical engineering students and a ... three live or lived in New House, and we learned the proper protocol for ... , Ashton ’20, and Dr. Kristala Prather '94 can tell you the rest.

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... mostly closed for the holidays and not accepting emails or answering phone calls. Many of us who read applications are taking a little break and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... only one measurement, and refuses to let you use his scale more than once ... the mollusks, you may open the jars and you may remove mollusks from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour ... to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note ... really need to do it, and so you just do the very hard thing without ... 've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  the quarter, and i also read three stories for CMS.307 workshop. the ... at before. afterwards, i went home and slept through a 14.121 review session, woke up in the evening, had a nice dinner with my friend, and then

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so ... ) And there you go, lots of pictures of cats. I hope this helped to cheer

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014