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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... institutional donors, but I'm told their goal is to cover 70% of their operating ... they want everyone, regardless of income level, to shop there. One of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  was a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Dumbledore: Fancy ... ’s right. I’ve reached out to a number of physics professors (I can't speak ... anytime to chat. I was scared of losing this accessibility. I've learned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  of time worrying about his career and ability to make art, and wonders ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the ... to come—I was just beginning to pick up the pieces of my life, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... used to keep every single email that came into my inbox out of frosh ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ...   helped plan our senior toast as part of class council to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... describes attaching her sense of worth to academic performance, listening to ... wrote the type of stuff I read, to connect with my crazy genius classmates

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my ... back at these 10 years, several lessons stand out to me. Some of them, I ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... . Place the bacon in the bottom of a large pot to begin cooking. Original

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  the chance to meet a lot of students and answer their questions about ... Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... honest. And (to bring us to the meat of this post) when I leave my house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... understanding of it. After my final all-nighter I woke up to someone waddling down ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012