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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... drizzly and dreary in Cambridge. Our ceremony started at 4 PM, and the sun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... securing the #1 seed in the conference tournament was cool and all, but what

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... . Neither the 2020 Hunt, nor the 2021 Hunt, nor this hunt, have actually had two hundred puzzles; the number's closer to 170. And our team doesn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up, and then fell behind again after getting sick from the flu shot. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow, too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... , including Gus the Bus, a 1967 Volkswagen bus that Spencer spent five years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this ... reading old issues of The Tech, MIT's student paper. Soon enough, I found

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... what they think the selection committee looks like. Their answers ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience, my thoughts about the future, plans, worry, all that. But I scratched ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... check, and I realized that they were probably staring because the center

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  na lang umuulan (it's always raining)[/caption] Ambon. The Philippine languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021