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• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an ... I make sacrifices and choose the right instead of the easy, focus, and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away He was full of great one-liners and aphorisms, but one that stuck out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a ... -oiled machine under her stern but gentle leadership and for the first time (ever

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... . What happens if the tracking system is missing something? First, do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my ... the 13-draft essay that took me three solid weeks of revision and wrote ... solar panel systems. iHouse had the honor of inviting him to dinner and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of ... in front of me and forget the word I’d just read as soon as I looked at ... Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  beginning of the year, we took a diagnostic test and we were assigned to ... work through the problem, and I would be left in the dark in terms of ... of dwelling on how much you hate or can't do something. The THIRD (and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  for the first time and overwhelmed by the feeling of having an entire ... : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course ... [/annotation], finding beauty in the synchronicity and the mystery of molecular biology

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... ... and then got half the chapter to start sending me lobsters, after they got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  . The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that Emad and I had responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going ... for the project. So I sort of threw something together and spent a bunch of time running crash simulations and plotting the results. I had no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  , athletes, and even Facebook stalkers in the student body; all of these people ... goats and triangles with ears. And of the people who go to MIT right now ... If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... with my grandparents, and we had none of the technology, especially none ... massive objects and space-time and the various wavelengths of light, the sky

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... blogs and application info, and had a working knowledge of all the course ... other, and happy that we could throw away the remaining two-thirds of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... at the top of the hill. Ok, time to listen to the blog comment and climb the stairs of the monument. I wandered over and saw this sign

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

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  and Seek in Killian 2. Vending machines (note the first appearance of ... Spongebob charms and a shiny new pair of white Crocs. Archer was the bag man ... squishy and then round off some of the sharp edges, and then people will be

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in ... loft to block out the rest of the world and a touch lamp shining into the ... and the reach of the already dim ceiling lamp (most of my room) in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  less tangible subjects, namely the homogeneity and isotropy of the ... around us. I disagreed, pointing out that the bits of whole peanuts ... discussion to a close, and at the end of the day, we accomplished nothing. No

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  right, and I mean RIGHT, next to the commuter rail. Most of the time it ... tick mark is 25 cents, and at the end of the year, we're going to have an ... and I have it 😇) F - Cleaning Dates This keeps a record of the last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... . Except there were a lot more of them. And then, day by day, the buds ... flowers bloom all at once and all in one place. It’s truly one of the most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024