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  Match Game

  

  to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... articulate MIT's mission for the next 50 years (this is a topic for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  's a committee decision, and we do the best that we can to treat the ... received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions ... 't set any target for that number. We won't have a final count of regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve ... SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a ... 's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own feelings as an Asian American who exists right now. it’s been a long year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing ... have ever encountered: an attentive listener, a thoughtful respondent ... everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

   and take some fun classes and do some fun things here in Boston. ...cooked ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... other intermittent meals. ...baked, I wanted to give baking a shot, too

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool big events throughout the year like a Intercollegiate Valentines Day Ball and a Coming Out Ball to celebrate coming out day! Queer West Queer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... judge the impact of a speaker is through the audience reaction, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  felt inspired.) will make a blog post if i do end up painting it! ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i wasn't too thrilled about, i've finally reached the promised land, a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... significant that these guidelines have been released, given that they endorse a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  face.     Pistol At MIT, we do a lot of things differently ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental Health, I was greeted with cheers and pom poms and a strange ghostly ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  trying to do everything possible to distract myself from the fact that Camp ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... crutches after a brütal Ultimate Frisbee injury - a dangerous sport indeed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and, realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  I got this email a few days back... From: Laura Nicholson Subject ... actually write out a nice, thought-out entry, you think you can cover for me ... totally awesome to write a blog entry that day and encourage people to watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  different (how did she DO that??? It was soooo cold, and imagine reading a ... absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007