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• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant ... organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... on Westminster Abbey aside, Purcell was a musical genius. Period. That

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to Map retinoid Binding Sites on Protein Kinase C A Practical ... left to right: Nick, Peak, Jijun, Johann, Mike, Donald, Amber, Kenny (MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only other real conversation we had- our first day on campus, trying to figure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  . (when i told her this, she said she was going to mail me a bunch of ... of the transition to full adulthood. it's a funny stage of life that we ... 's always there to tempt me"]paris baguette[/annotation] and buying a slice of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual ... the room and share a quick smirk. And if you are the preferred gender

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  'm listlessly thinking to ask her about the force on a dipole due to the gradient ... weekend at pika, after waking up on Thanksgiving day to a house full of ... decided to call it a day when the robotically-sonorous female voice on my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog ... on hold that I really want to write, but can't, because I'm only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’). Like a lot of people, I act like I love to embrace change and go on crazy ... Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the ... modern feminist movements is something I cannot comment on nor relate to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  best chance to view what’s happening on stage is to sneak a glimpse from ... noon for soundcheck, 8 hours later we had put on a show! I want to thank ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  spectacle to actual social activity: such a division is itself divided. The ... But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... don’t run into any issues on Saturday. If you need to reset your ... a button that says "View Update." Make sure that you are ready to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  have some block on an inclined plane or something, and you’ve got to ... related to normal and shear stresses, a diagram of a rotated block with no ... dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don ... 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  example, the New York Times called Toscanini's "the best ice cream in the ... : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach ... ' Cream * Rock n' Pop Swirl * Tripple Play * Apple Pie a la Mode * Oreo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  on taking [annotation note="Introduction to Design Intensive"]4.02A ... internship and have promised a friend to contribute on a project. Eldar U ... at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  online shopping Give yourself a pep-talk to write so many blogs on this ... for summer jobs Listen to Charli XCX Act like you're gonna work on ... .5 hours before boarding starts Try to find a water fountain Wonder why

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech ... department, researchers in the Lang Lab use a laser “tractor-beam” to manipulate single molecules and cells (and I had used a similar setup to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room ... lifted; I want to cross the hallway, knock on everyone's doors, and play ... better and a dozen cheap thrills. I want to be tired when I go to bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021