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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I ... installed on the side of every seat, below each armrest. "Maple

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... kind of writer I am. Would it be a good idea to submit a new one or just ... about sending in an elaboration on one of the summer activities I listed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  matter. Happy Halloween, good luck on your EA applications, and as ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  of street cred too!). *By the way, I copied and pasted part of this ... 're considering MIT (if not, you might be on the wrong website), here's my advice ... gatherings. Snapshot: Last night, on the inaugural evening of Spring Break, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  for the love of all things green and good get OFF of those videos ... trace a mental list of every way we think we don't compare, asking what ... life path constantly weighing on me, the heaviness of not getting what I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  that new zealand grades on the N-A-M-E system? quirky until i had to ... that yeah i'm a good student for getting E's instead of A's"]our weird ... just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... , slouched in the corner of Howard Dining Hall with a melancholy look on your ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  , had the goal of playing all the board games on floorpi before he ... lot of details on them, but as time progressed, we started adding more ... , discussing strategy and rules. on the server, alex would post pictures of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... Continuous process design. Right now we're working on a computer simulation of ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... great website of Scott Hughes, my professor for 8.022. I was only ... way to see what physics is really like, learn a heck of a lot of problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  find a good new release (or an old album by a band I'd never heard of ... of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring ... : ^ the hacker's map on the underside of the ring.  I like the nod to Bexley ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  either. I know this is a vague answer; I just can't think of a way to ... 's very similar question in my Q&A #5, about 1/3 of the way down the page ... 10 day prep and these tests are totally of new shape of what I had been

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par ... -acquainting myself with the mystical ways of the Mac (which has been dead to me since ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... , except on substack instead of the mit admissions blog. i think when i was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  The CollegeBoard's Website for information about the exams, and all of ... ? Well, in terms of a boyfriend for Veronica, I vote Logan all the way. Piz ... Well, I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday afternoon, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... this, I’ll be in Moscow, stopping over for a few days on my way to one of ... , so I’ll start with the how. On the morning of Saturday, September 12th

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020