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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... light pollution overhead until I was stuffed with numbness and murky starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about ... ’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come ... visit an archive to read the full story, but I've pulled out some choice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... days before the deadline, which I have posted below:   I submitted my materials, so why don't I see them in my portal yet? Due to tremendous volume

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here's what the list would look like [annotation note="Disclaimer: I am fully ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... nominations than I have years of life. It’s probably very difficult to include

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  I didn't mean to write this entry. I sat down to write about some recent events I've been meaning to blog about for a while - and well, I ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... . I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... ? Nanda told the Boston Globe: "I like my sleep," said Nanda, a research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... provide a few proprietary products for use (i.e. Nvidia Jetsons or ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  : they are many, well attended, and thoroughly documented. However, I ... , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... Conner 2's TV lounge for the night, just down the hall from where I was

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet another one tomorrow morning. Since I'd actually like to write something other than "AGH MONKEYS WHY DO I FAIL AT LIFE," stories about what I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  onto your cold-making box. I like to think about sticking-together rocks ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... about these for now. I still don't quite understand how these kinds of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also ... the ten hundred most used words. I told them they can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to ... // cry and cry //    i love being a girl // let me be // 

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a news headline about what happened[/caption] I wasn ... few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  As I've mentioned here, here, and here, I've been spending my summer ... .mit.edu. We're coming up to launch on both sites and so I wanted to take this ... . Most of that will happen post-launch, but I think this website will be a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  called from the back. “I’m missing my DSLR camera!” called another. The ... cash, an iPhone, a set of keys tagged with the apartment address, and a ... have gone smoothly and wonderfully. I got my first taste of working on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  Silva. He's painted my name at least five times since I've been here as we ... not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were ... like I'm being harsh, but I wasn't the only one thinking those questions ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016