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• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  coolness - not all of which I completely understand - to render images in ... Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October). Also during that time, presumably because I've gotten older and wiser, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  hot territory as far as unclaimed Google search hits go, but I ... ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago: I tried/ditched required ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  housemasters' dogs (confession: I'm not entirely sure whether the dogs have ... mutter to yourself, "what have I even done with my life?" Oftentimes, this ... once. I had this moment most recently while sitting in my 18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  spreadsheet or productivity app. However, I didn't like Google Sheets or ... 2017, I used a Google Sheet to keep track of my college applications, and a separate Google Doc to compose my essays. Here's an example of how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly ... Blogging Year 3 is going to be unparalleled. I'll shut up now and give you ... great choice to help us translate MIT onto the web. Congrats Jess! And to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a few projects, so figured I'd make myself useful and answer some ... comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  Before committing to any major choice, I think you have to be ready and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  ? I swear that’s the last time I’ll ask, mostly because very soon CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life-changing event I wished I’d registered for but missed the deadline because I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... large scale genetic sequencing, and more! Check out http://web

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... work continues. As I've said, prepare for the worst and hope for the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I've passed all of my classes, so that means I am officially done with ... ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

    Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  to arise and I was rendered completely immobile, I realized that it was ... I didn't leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  , along with this one on the Official Google Blog. I love my school :) ... F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. My last final is over, my boxes are packed, and I ... rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  this class too. It aligns well with a lot of web development skills I ... see what was up. The current start-up I work at is in the Web3 space, so ... I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  internal stresses render the bulbous head bulletproof, I sulked in the corner ... This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read ... of lugging boxes of t-shirts and [annotation note="i wasn't talking

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011