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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3 ... to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  additional students this year for the Class of 2015. Thanks to all of you on the waitlist for your time and patience during this process. Congrats to ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... want to be; more on the method to the madness, later, probably

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured ... -day for me. You're fine," Abe said. -- I spent Saturday working on the 6 ... world crying on my birthday, so I'm really just going back to my roots. I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed ... individual admissions officer did not see and decide on your application. It ... received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  Times has an article on the length of the new SAT. Some students and ... : schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to ... with a 7-1 record [read more: MITAthletics] So, Summer got a 2300 on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  : some of us became dependent on those to feel good about ourselves. One ... . On December 22, I fly back home to London for the first time in a YEAR ... around New Year's. We're going to take a tour of Hampton Court palace; way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  inviting faculty members to your darty. Well, [annotation note= "I really ... .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  about.    We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.  I am always evaluating myself on how I am doing. I am usually ... I am still trying to find answers on how to balance that well.   

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  'll post it on my next blog! What: A picture that's somehow related to your ... your picture sizes reasonable! (so it doesn't take forever for me to load ... After reading my last blog, Jola from Poland also wanted to let me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... a glacier lagoon and returned to Vík to stay in a cabin on the beach

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  Tick list. Oomf. I need to get on that. I know I'm on top of the things that I need to be on top of, but I still worry about accidentally forgetting to ... sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  on reuse, and if you get email pushed to your phone, you can get some ... something that you have on your side whereas abundant money isn't so much. To ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... ’m on a plane flight home. Dire Straits’ "On Every Street" hums through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  sunshine and warmth to the other coast, especially on cold, icy New England ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... just create new ideas. Well...she was right. Physicist Joseph Henry said ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006