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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that.But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007