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  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  'll die on that hill if I'm not already dead from one of the trials ... brain can't summon the idiom "to take with a grain of salt." Work on ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... (usually) nude model poses in the middle of a room in a series of timed poses

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  hat has reappeared on special days including the first day of school ... to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  its reputation as a time sink. I like that so much of it is hands-on ... figured that I'd let you know what I'm taking this term, since some of you ... 's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I ... because I decided to stay up late and continue working on my critical review of The compressive properties and function-composition relationships of

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  . And if you can handle putting all of your life-changing moments down on ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So why, then ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  the ship models and viewed parts of lectures on robotics in Course 2. We ... many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  are not showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  know many of you have been anxiously awaiting news about our wait list ... on admitting students from the wait list. However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured ... Classic, where Classic is focused entirely on construction while Alpha

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  ? Surely I provide plenty of material on this blog), event planning, and ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... of exams have started, yet about 70 girls attended. Some activities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  the final time this school year on Saturday, June 3. The deadline for ... preference between any of the tests. You should take whichever math test best suits you, and the science test of whichever science course you are taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  this way this year. (Admitted students will receive information on their ... admit rate of 10%, or about one of every ten applicants. We have offered a place on the waitlist to 454 students. We on the admissions committee put

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009