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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... project, how you helped overcome a difficulty encountered by the group, or ... you would be a good addition to the MIT community. ECs know MIT, went to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by ... body of water Brad had promised (signed a legally binding contract) to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  supposed to vote on slogans advertising a party thrown by Hillel, but I do ... Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... , replaced by stacks of unopened mail and grocery store receipts. A ticking timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  into consideration (and you're not going to get a part if you really can ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... . Also, you can't sing, so you won't get a big part anyway. You got a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  tragedy. I need to go to an airport, catch a flight, and get from the ... dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started ... I was slowing down. I got distracted quite a bit, but still managed to ... to practice to even have a chance at passing, and that I was nowhere

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  that the money was actually being put to good use by a student group ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might ... down the Infinite to the tune of S'weight, which was requested of us by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  to get from the house). Oh, also, this happened a few months before ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... "Beat the Blerch" - a race sponsored and created by Matthew Inman (creator

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was ... have done so, and have decided not to do a post of my own, because you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  in shape year round. I never have to worry about voluntarily getting to ... a leader) of a team entails. From aspiring to be voted captain to ... , all relate to a time crunch. This time crunch presents itself in a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  , (if you'd told me a few weeks ago that I'd be thrilled by a jackdaw ... us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little ... pretty.) A big part of orgo is trying to synthesize molecules using a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of an upswing. i've met kids who are such nerds that were so happy to be a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my ... tunnel. The reason all of these things need to be done by next Thursday is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of ... can be stated as follows: there is often a tendency to see technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  dept, and somehow managed to get a 2400... so... um... this won't be seen ... done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay ... wrote: "How do you guys decide if someone gets admitted? Are there a bunch

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005