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  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are ... traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• 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 / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  to New York City by 6:30 AM on Amtrak, immediately greeted by some of ... of snowy [annotation note="the jury is still out of whether Westchester County is Upstate or not, fight in the comments below"]upstate New York

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... character syndrome." I agree. I think my sense of self is a little too acute ... I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• 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 / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies ... . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 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

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  of technology, so it's not, "Can we make it bigger, faster, stronger ... huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on inclusive ... had the distinct privilege of chatting with her last week and we had a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• 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
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Institute back then.[/annotation]   Getting into MacG in the fall of ... I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019