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• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  reminded me of the good old days before I dropped 18.701, except with less ... to Harvard, which of course takes its name from the fantastic Harvard ... , spectacular "block party" on the second Saturday of September every year, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... whom we could not visit, and to reinvigorate the interest of those who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time ... outside scholarships. If you haven't already discovered all of the web

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of classes, but it doesn't become real until after the first midterms. I have ... first time or for the nth time, ask your pilot for a picture! Ask for a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  – the first floor of the Burton side of the Burton-Conner dorm. To live up ... My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so ... . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps the first ever. He was admitted. But he said no. Here's the story, from ... Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... don't really feel like editing all the pictures I took...) First, the ... Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was ... , academic programs, extracurricular options, diversity of the student body ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera ... skeptical about it at first since, erm, since when has happiness come in the ... me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has ... , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... 'm not upset, because it means others are experiencing the joy of sailing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... of recipes and the ingredients that they require. Put in the days ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  't learned any of the material that it covers, you have to go to lecture first ... other that's just happenstance. The first reason you're seeing fewer ... open-air market the other day so now there are a lot of avocados in our

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  the first place?" Starting at issues of power: who has control? who gets ... had the distinct privilege of chatting with her last week and we had a ... social robots lab. And some of the projects I did there involved computer

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  is the first hit for that (as you correctly point out) incorrect spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not ... , it was about the future I saw for myself crumbling as my knowledge of ... took up the hobby of exploring the ocean. I spent a weekend with hippies

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note="The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . '19, left, and I were Day Ones — she was one of the first people I met ... every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It ... finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017