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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Nate aced his final. Katelyn's bowl, on the other hand, reminded me of ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  of my decision reaction in my memories, and remember looking on this ... from people who were not admitted on Pi Days past sharing their own ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  job. However, when I think of the colleagues I work with on a daily ... became a second home for me on-campus. My supervisors, amazing women of ... It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... nothing. We sped through documentation and thought up of new things on the ... finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... extended a beanstalk. On it, hung Jack, all packed and ready for adventure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  , I’ve never used it on manual. But observing the effects of exposure ... curious about all those settings on my camera -- and the meaning of ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

   inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and centered on a sculpture by the architect Ciro Najle. This internship ... September, and refocus my energy on a different topic. I helped curate an

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  "not admitted" thread on Ben's blog, this school is not a bastion of ... , Caltech sucks!" statement on here. :) I hope those of you who came to CPW ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... the EAPS Undergrad Lounge on the 8th floor of the Green Building ... .003,[/annotation] and [annotation note="Geobiology: History of Life on Earth"]12

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... . Rolls upon rolls of film have been burned on these two, but I'll spare you. Just a couple here. On the drive up to MIT: In bexley: Some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... row, has sort of worn down on my self esteem over the years. But this is ... lecture ON THE DAY of my interview when they asked about caches

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  lots of cool things happening here on campus too! Like: Classes Many of ... and Emma! oops sorry i’m writing this instead of working on the website ... a lot of them on my schedule. One of them, I guess, is a waltz class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three-year anniversary of going on leave (November 1!) A six-page autobiographical comic ... stuck a lot of the art I’d picked up at conventions on the above my bed

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

   EVLA time, and 4 free hours of VLBA time: that's free time on two of the most ... -rank score" of 5.74, and an explanation that this is on a scale of 0 ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... 10 people who commented on one of my recent entries about writing notes ... the scrambled contents of my brain on the margins of the pages of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

   one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is ... . Instead of calling [annotation note="on tetazoo, one would call stabsies to ... raid siren on the night of someone's birthday"]air raid siren

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022