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  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... . A lot of the time, the highlights of my day and the events that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational and reasonable major life decision. I ADOPTED A SEVEN WEEK OLD KITTEN

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... year, they go something like this: We know you lead a busy life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  literally consumes my life. I complain sometimes - okay a lot - but deep inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in ... metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... . Although there are a lot of cool things about this research he and others are

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to ... was one of those days. When the light turned red, a few gentlemen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  1 equation per 3 words of English during my previous semester as a ... at puzzles, running around campus looking for a man dressed as a mutant ... , here's a puzzle that ate up 12 hours of Saturday for breakfast with spare

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES ... ’ve had the pleasure (?) of encountering in my 21 years. In a way, the ... breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited ... year, with more excitement, a better prize, and more fame and glory ... a food picture) Please include: where you took the picture. (aka

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines flight, lugged my two massive suitcases into a relative’s waiting car, and ... parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  admission, a record number for us and a 27% increase over last year. We ... from these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. We ... speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin ... rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... pretty-like (in color!). Before you look at that though, let's do a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... installed in 10-250, MIT's most popular lecture hall? If not, take a quick read and get acquainted with the various seating options. I picked up a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  , it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my coworker sent me some links to a project that his friend had worked on, which ... now- Adelaide '09 is visiting Madrid! We walked over a huge portion of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  you've had since forever, or you get home after a long trip and just put ... CPW were a mix of And you know what? I ended up at half of them ... , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for ... really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007