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  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  dance instructor come and teach everyone how to do a little swing. I ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... same thing. Fortunately for all of us, MIT has a remarkably strong

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  doing with my life. Over a hundred student groups were present at the ... This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true ... morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  more entries that provided a snapshot of what I was actually doing, but ... you think. "I like what you're doing, keep it up" is a valid answer, as ... realize that he wrote it a month ago. I've been kind of lame about reading

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... grounded and relevant. On those days when I wonder why I do this for a living ... Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Don't sue me, Fox News. Has Al Franken taught you nothing? Do ... 's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... heading over there as soon as I finish this post. A parent sent me a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  term plans, including college. That's when I stumbled upon a web page ... realized that was what I wanted to do! I even emailed to ask more questions ... happy to be acknowledged!"]received a response[/annotation] to my email a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really ... . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  up having to do a third interview, which went well. Shortly afterward ... be doing some work at 3 A.M. But for both summers, while I did ... MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures ... , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... .... Our journey began, as most good journeys do, at the Student Center

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... ” – a $500k quantum optics toolkit from Germany with nanometer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power a cell phone. A cell phone of the future. We're not actually using

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out, grabbed the student guide, and tossed her into the trunk. A fifth young man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... , though! I’ve been meaning to do some sort of college essay post while I ... revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... , so I usually only do this if I get a to-go box (e.g., during late ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  create is a self check-in of: would I be willing to put in the work or do I ... lifestyle, I am doing all of that. If I need a total of $1,250 / month, a job ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018