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• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... ) "I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... wonderful readers out there. I followed them around campus while they talked ... to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  difficult: it has been truly painful. If you are among them, then all I can ... . I'm closing comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation ... . Congratulations to the Class of 2020. I wish all of our applicants well. No matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... ; Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just ... ever, except maybe DJ Khaled. Scrolling through my facebook feed, I was

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if ... reason I love working with Holly is because she's always down to try ... and I finally got to sit down and talk about ourselves. The transcript

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... captivating creatures. They were much smaller than I expected them to be, but I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don ... a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... ...). Sometimes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm worried about 2.009. Yet

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ... like I had enough♪   ♫Today makes me feel something like summertime ... The tunnels mapped out on the back of my hand While you were laughing I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... , you are equipped to understand the flurry of e-mails I have received ... . - Pan dulce on the sactab! 11:01am, Nov 3 Bonjour- I made some pan dulce

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... dollar investment ever. Coming back to campus last Monday, I jumped ... . Impressive! (read: omg what am I doing with my life) The rest of the FPOP

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  my job I am constantly amazed by the caliber of character, intellect ... for everyone else. I hope you do. I know you will. I'm closing ... .  Congratulations to the Class of 2016. I wish all of our applicants well. It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  translation. I'm here to introduce to you Jeju Island, South Korea, as ... ... The sky was overcast, but I spy with my little eyes...OCEAN. And then ... assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on repeat from the floor above. I always smile. I know the musician, and I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... normal MIT classroom (it looks a lot like the room where I took 18 ... reading this know which classroom this is?). I love that the chalkboard isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I ... you. I should also note that if your gap year plans are not certain by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... sea in the sweet wet velvet of winter eve, I looked up and saw a beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... running out of battery!), I prevailed against all odds and secured a photo ... of the things I love most about MIT is the history that surrounds our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009