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• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  plenty of space on the harddrive. So any old green computer couldn ... set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  members of the MIT community stood on Amherst Alley and Memorial Drive to ... June 2008 seemed an eternity away when I first arrived on MIT ... am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... piece of Old Black Joe cake, and some shoo-fly pie. On my way down to ... a full account of my activities at home later on, or maybe not. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  life of an admissions officer on the road can be hectic, and sadly we do ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the ... of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  that no instagram had on me. being in new york gave me a lot of whiplash ... experiences, beyond the idea of “i can make a post on instagram and get some ... , people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  with no intentions of doing it anyways because I need to work on my ... most of the basic things. I planned on building my own loft this year ... and land on solid ground. Such is the nature of this school, and this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  getting an efficiency apartment in one of the family residences on campus ... dorm I stayed in took me on a tour of the dorm, and by the time we ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Community School of Naples, both were on the Mu Alpha Theta team, were co ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  was a legitimate course of action. I'm pretty sure they let me on the ... is an arch of balloons you see in the reflection on the window. XD ... on the right is a drawing of me by one of the students!)     

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  ! ------------------------------------- Yuri wrote: "Just out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on (I ... olympiads, one stands on the podium of the "green olympiad" - int ... an internal deadline of Dec. 1, on which it will send out the all the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET.   To check your decision on ... decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist. However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  was totally wrong about bikes on campus. I've always walked to class and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end of west campus. Especially because Boston has stupid weather. But Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  your manuscript, “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies”, we encourage ... these comments as a negative judgment of your scientific abilities; on the ... and resubmit it based on comments from my TA. Some of you might also be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of freaking out about upcoming admissions ... -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  's reflection on John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration of the Independence of ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... on my email and read some articles and flipped through the first

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In ... ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  bunch of concepts, put twists on the classical examples, and churn out ... Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007