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• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  . Laugh at it. Make a reading list. Try to finish it Read book ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... when a lot of people seem to enter a mindset of now what? You’ve prepared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in my hometown during high school and had to run from a shootout (to be

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned ... kind of means a lot to me. Not necessarily the literal institution; the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  a machine to make usable fuel. my grad student, Andy, told me that he ... to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... . Alright, sure, they did bust out a container of liquid Nitrogen to please ... standing up to leave. There's a lot of academic rigor at MIT. The classes are

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... 's cousin?). After Reno, I was off to Sacramento, where I hosted a Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a ... went home to make this:  It’s so conflicting. We cringe so much ... r i n g e* But we also remember how fun it was to make this type of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  decisions online, so if you haven't created a MyMIT account, make sure to ... students.) To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit ... currently have a MyMIT account and you wish to receive your decision online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a ... 's cover, and take a chance to try something new. Rule #6: Pack for the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... button-making Warning: this part is going to start off happy, and end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, strangers. A video, a song, and some doodles.

  

  about how his grandmother used to make soap from cow fat.) Aaaaaaaaaaaand ... &reg. Please don't hate me! Anyway, I also realized it's been a while since I've posted some doodles and a video (because honestly that last one totally did

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in ... wanted to head back home. After a long, demanding yet equally rewarding

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... .036 introduction to machine learning. after being a lab assistant, or la, for four ... recitation, plus a wednesday lab. my section was from 11:00 to 12:30, and that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... ’d just use this as an excuse to do a cool thing. Like Saeki said, it would ... and struggling to obtain for all of high school. I wondered if a daily

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  to the Past Ice Skating to Once Upon a December cartoons that make us ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... was probably around 5:15 pm. We had a little over an hour to kill, so we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland ... come up with a vision to change the world and a plan to put that vision ... students; it felt surreal to share a meal with both the Chancellor and the VP

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012