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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... Summer Admissions Institute since Sunday. It starts at 8AM with breakfast ... (the out-of-towners are exploring Boston) so I'm taking a minute to say

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  ). This fall will be the start of my senior year at the Institute (!!!!). I ... I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... 've been offered four dresses to try on. Just seeing them in my room fills me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread ... 't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  procrastinate and let you know how my summer turned out. Did most of my diet consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long ... bake dozens and dozens of cookies? The scintillating answer to those

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it ... review” of the semester – which means everybody presents their design

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that ... Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to the work to date. Script Kiddie 101 The primary portion of this

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  self proclaimed "font designer," and thus begins a series of painfully ... MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of ... kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the ... offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab, one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my ... -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  offers a bunch of other training features that people are playing on. And I ... had to institute an artificial end in gameplay because the idea of ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024