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  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  ! Read it here: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute ... to make some sort of bad ideas flavored blog for our Pi Day ... . 7 The Dawn of a New Project That is Not Good for My Academic Wellbeing

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... many pictures of myself on this blog recently... but perhaps that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  feel appropriate in your mind. Ridonkulous, one of MIT's amazing dance ... is decked out in a bunch of different colors right now, including their ... giant cardboard heads of two of my friends! I've watched my floor friends

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d been talking about ... voila! Four-day festival tix! A friend of mine volunteered as well. I sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm. Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... Explorations of Drawing (Advanced), even though I wasn't sure how (Advanced) I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  although there were women living in one of several independent living groups ... fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at CPW are awesome. All of them. Here are some especially awesome ones that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  30 days, which comes with various, non-specific benefits, and lot of ... kind of avatar defines me as a person?” Who cares? Spring semester was, in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  ;insert your own> degree of seriousness? In my personal opinion, the MIT ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  and pick up. My sister and I are really close, but now that both of us ... stairs of Walker Memorial and into Caving Club office. Could I have skipped ... upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019