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  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  desperately I wanted to be here. This is MIT, and I am here. I taste the words ... , intelligent person you are, and, if you let yourself, you can continue to be ... decisions page: We know that applying to college is stressful, and that the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... showed a whole new space, the valley and the climbing mountain on the other ... later, and they are all accessible from the highway on the other side of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  looks like I'll be interning there next summer and potentially during IAP ... , but I'm happy the summer went so well - it's good to be productive and ... here and there -- the Midwest, the South, and elsewhere on some long

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty ... my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped ... , and besides F=MA and watching my teacher set his hair on fire I don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  emphasis on the preservation of democracy through civics and the humanities ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history ... may be an ever-diminishing premium placed on the man who is different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... . The game was exciting, with Washington's Tony Armas Jr and Arizona

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  straight and it'll be there), I used Google Maps, which took me on the most ...  temporary and fixable issue with the engine. His head was already on the window ... back with me to Simmons, and I told her she could shower and sleep on the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  only be made if I have the privilege of stepping aside, and to be honest, that might be the difference between me now and me as a high school ... that is a net negative and leaving something because the grass might be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth ... within to the edge of what can be loved." Autobiography of Red is for ... prerequisite reading, one of my favorite lines, and whom I believe the story is

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

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and ... you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  and water. (Did you know that, thanks to 5.60, I can now model the ... large puddle of water on the steps of the subway station... and land ... . To be honest, I was completely and totally sick of snow by the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its ... experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  for) writing consistently and well tend to be the most compelling ... conspiracy of nerds who write about MIT on the Internet and learn the secret ... like to do, then head on over to Slideroom and fill out the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  can't do this anymore. I'm heading back to the dorm. I'll be updating throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing. ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  an eye out on the blogs) and ate some really good pie of the meat and ... continues on in the bracket. It’s a whole lot of fun, and a great introduction ... and boba to count, lock-picking, the occasional sunny moment on Killian

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that ... ="Tastefully Furnished Lounge – the largest gathering space in Next House that's located on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Lander can predict the future.  Or at least what will be on the front page ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... genius.  Oh, and he teaches freshman biology.  That's why the first several

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . So they get here, and let loose. It's to be expected, right? The ... and an A on the assignment -- heck, I could. But if you try to do that ... anything, and as a result, the burden rests completely on your shoulders to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  Islands with me during spring break. Opened it on the beach a few times and ... close to the waves that time) and sand all between its pages. Aside from ... a 10-page term paper on Julius Caesar due this past Monday (the sort

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  in the corners of otherwise miserable semesters, there can be spots of ... and further behind on the content. I tried to catch up over the weekends ... 't have the time [annotation note="to be clear, I still can't really act or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022