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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  minute later. The photo was of Beaver Stadium, filled to capacity during a ... , the safest small city in America, and one of the best places to live or ... move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons ... to her. (People even read my writing! Sometimes a lot of people, and ... failure? a lack of exposure to criticism? not yet having experienced or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  to feud with political pundits who are full of hot air (*cough* Joe ... career, from baseball to Washington, he has stood strong in the face of not ... political news media that clung to its storyline of the race being a "tossup

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  . It was empty though, much to the displeasure of many tourists. Jeanne ... manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as ... to some of you prospective students, yes? Until next time, tschuss!

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of ... 't describe the physical appearance of this fish in such a way as to convey how ... fish?" "Ok!" Our group of six now headed to building 35, walked up

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  glimpse of the fish and sea turtles around. when the sun started to set, we went to grab some of the best tacos I've ever eaten at a taco truck, and ... out of bed at 4 pm and then immediately went to the beach. it was a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  graduate) because I didn't want to be in an environment of exclusively ... Southern California up to that point, in the same suburban city of around 70 ... biking would be part of my routine. Since I was fortunate to have visited

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  of thinking about old issues. This is all to say that I was doing ... aspects of my perfectionism that I’ve been aware of, and that I’m trying to ... energy and trying to stay critical of my expectations and conscious that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  in front of a palm tree, and so on--each one to the rhythm of the music ... hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this ... no portfolio review to take art classes or be a part of the art program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out-of ... ’s harder to create a set of terrible questions and failing student ... Competency-Based Learning (CBL). I have a growing list of questions to answer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston ... to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you ... ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary ... par during that time. Thus, they took me to America in the summer of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  receiving end of the various negative affirmative action comments that seem to ... are differences to celebrate. (It's the fundamental pulse of the process ... size of the booklet to 8.5 x 11 Thoughts? The resulting email thread

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... , when I move out of Boston? I'm scared that I'm going to leave this place and I won't have things to do and then I'll spend most of my time being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... limited to her professional responsibilities. If you were the partner of a ... wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a ... dealing with problems, and more of having to worry about these kinds of ... about it I kind of don’t want to be a grown up. Let me be a child and let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they ... ,000, thanks to everyone who came! This Friday night: MIT gives a lot of money

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... period of 7 days to complete and submit it. We will begin reviewing ... state of the pandemic. If this sounds like something you might like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... only managed to attempt about 60 of the 100 points by tuesday midnight ... need something to snap me out of this stupor. --- working in boston

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017