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• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Browsing Matt's blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the horizon as well. A quick check revealed that I missed it - it was August 6 ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  Conner 5 as a nice blonde older sister who just finished getting her master ... a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Harry Potter fame) tried to kill the Great Dome with a curse, leaving a ... community went to Six Flags". You don't stop being a Child of Florey (another name for a 5th East-er, if you couldn't figure that out) because of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about ... able to replace it overnight. Back at home, we have a Rottweiler-German Shepard mix, Toby. My younger brother got it for his birthday a few years

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... , Long Island, New York, a small town with a tourism and maritime economy. From Kindergarten through 8th grade, I attended a small Catholic school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  ” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know ... change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the ... Like literally how have i never lost a flight I'm[/visually_hidden] This

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car, interning at a writers’ retreat, and backpacking through Europe. This break, I ... that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... about this — call [annotation note="a service repair hotline for on-campus buildings"]FIX-IT[/annotation], submit a work order request, or just let

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to build a life after." I said sure, and she wrote this post. I had planned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  defend. 1. Proofs are boring Don't you dare show me a mathematical proof ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not ... a formality on the way to making something common knowledge. I choose

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... presence. I love it. The club has also taught me a new relationship with fear

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone ... ="HackMIT's annual high school learnathon and hackathon, where we spend a day teaching ... HAPPENING!! anyway. i'm the director of blueprint, so i am a little busy, but

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... a breather from classes, Admissions Officers are in our seemingly ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  . As has been explained a million times and will be a million more, MIT ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/34w1NkAVcqH4pn9xpuuGDp?si=6ca6d77b70a546b2 Is there a song that helps

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back ... . My phone, however, is a different story. The problem with the phone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022