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  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  difficult and uncertain time for me, and for MIT; during their first year ... members of their class. It was, I think, the hardest year for the MIT community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  help and advice. Though we do have a group chat for all of us studying ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for ... . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered ... requires 4 PE classes for graduation, which explained the large fraction of 8

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  ’t think such a word exists. I’d felt that MIT was a place for me. The ... walking around campus had done what so many high school students strived for ... Heaven on Earth.   Now let me be completely honest with you guys for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would ... Hello from Barcelona! I'm here for an astronomy conference. (You may ... Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.) Some news from me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best ... still have to fit time for other activities, going to sleep, and studying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  United Nations Conference). Six of us from MIT's MUN Team went for this ... deadline came and went. For those that submitted EA applications, good job ... -ish. :) Before the weather turned cold, Allen and I went sailing for the last time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... -Friday, 9am-5pm Boston time, or send us an email at admissions ... : [MIT students] Subject: Candle-light Vigil for the Earthquake Victims in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  fun new interfaces for musical expression. Professor Ian Hattwick encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... of us that I want to solve before we launch in September: * Maintaining/extending the weird, fun, "students just made this for you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  , because it is a truly angsty experience that has been in the works for almost a year -- prime real estate for data analysis! When we suggested ... downloaded as html from facebook). We just used an online converter for this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  both are insanely accomplished, and the stuff they have done for the ... 3 ATPs," when explaining biochemistry to us. Then there’s 8 ... whole class was just waiting at one point for someone to say they were

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT ... ’s worked on this initiative for the past year has seen the need for voter ... more than 600 people registered across the U.S. that week and even more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Beantown outings. So you can imagine how big a deal it was for us when the ... coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... guaranteed to win no matter what, and subsequently decided to grace us with a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... far. A statement button: For those into feminist think pieces as well as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , more than two, but only two matter here) lists in MailChimp for any given admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the ... for. A perfect farewell to summer.             Kudos if you can ... idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011