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• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of ... technical term, because he spent a lot of time talking with Galileo ... : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big red box. When I was but a tiny fetus, I remember counting down those

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his keyboard as well. Jenn, the perpetrator, tells us that there are a lot ... a July 4 party at my house, and all the other summer students came

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight ... !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  . 21W.021, also known as "MIT 150:Inside, Live",  is a CI-HW (Writing ... prompt that resulted in these two comics was a simple one, "take your role as a participant-observer at MIT and find a fresh way to present your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  've always had open comments on every entry. These blogs aren't only a place ... 's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... incredibly valuable. A few years ago, back when I was Course 7 (that's Biology

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time ... Bridge College Admissions Conferences that are hosted annually by QuestBridge - a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim ... , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  a few weeks before our application opens, there are some things you can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes because apparently my immune system is taking a little vacation right now ... time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to ... maybe 4 to 5 equivalents of this amount of stuff: My stuff, looking a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... one of your eyes, creating a 3D image. The 3D is cool, but irrelevant ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011