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  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... "early action" round of admissions, partly on grounds it contributes to ... Kenneth Ginsburg of Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, her co-author on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  -- the latest technologies, a credit card swipe at the drop of a hat, new ... I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... running and running, eyes set on the shining lighthouse that was MIT, and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  ribbons on graduation. You've heard of them, haven't you? Do the numbers and ... 're done.” Don’t think of all the ways you could have made the application, or the life described in it, better. Think of your wonderful high

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  friends on the fourth floor have Guitar Hero II) was part of the reason this ... can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT ... few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  gunned down, most of them by a deep-cover CIA agent on a killing spree, and ... eyes, both of our disc guns drawn and in our laps, fingers on the trigger ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor ... . "We want to go to MIT?" "So do lots of people!" On that topic, I feel ... about how I gave presentations on campaign finance reform, instead of just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  up my vital signs. The third rider on the shift was one of the new ... on Thursday I made my way from 2.007 lecture to the second floor of the ... next thing I remember is lying on the floor with one of the red cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  't see? Things sitting on top of things, things inside of things, heat and ... , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... new and strange and wonderful and I was never told what beauty was or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... garden of temporary statues. "Hammer Time." The scene resumes. I

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club ... things. how's east campus these days? or, what's going on with mystery hunt? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  coffee drinking expert. Plus, I had found a whole new community of people ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i ... nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Last year, I spent the entire summer working at ETS in Princeton, New ... wanted two things 1) travel farther 2) focus on architecture. The answer ... world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in front of a television watching an 8-bit blue hedgehog in snazzy red ... night, Berklee College of Music hosted an audience that ranged from moms

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... "]am[/annotation] an active fan of Blaseball, the ninth best game on the internet in 2020 ... hats are my way of self expression on my head. The Green Monster hat

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  satellite, and on efficiently co-locating data from different types of ... , so I eventually gave up and got down on one knee in front of a few ... soon,[/annotation] and I wanted to start a new project focused on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  of my ability to go, "Haha, yeah, I like that show," and move on. Being ... -changing. I'd initially read the English translation of MDZS, but I moved on to ... , and before long, every single piece of paper I could get my hands on was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021