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  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  Eden on the grass and she slept off some stress in the sun. This time of ...   In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays ... bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  MIT. It was my very first time on campus, so I was struck by the sheer variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... the fourth Roman Emperor to complex Fourier series. I went on tours that

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... support. people here are so painfully kind. within two months of staying here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... applications all of November into December. We have not yet determined on what ... interviewer. Do not worry, we are not shutting down the application on November

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  alternate Boston, where the death of one uptight man on a rollercoaster in ... your memories before you move on to the next great adventure, full of ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  which I ended up submitting a total of 26 regrade requests on questions ... largest was 20. Of course, 2.2 points on an exam is worth a lot more to the ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Feebleness of Gravity, and the Physics 2004 Nobel Colloquium on MIT World. ... of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of construction outside my window. On one of my first days in Lausanne, I visited ... Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... such as my blog is not the place to have a discussion on highly serious

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... 've been offered four dresses to try on. Just seeing them in my room fills me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  -thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple ... (Taylor’s Version) announcement on a livestream in my bed // made Spotify ... //    happiness of celebrating girlhood // celebrating art and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... this long at MIT without getting some form of disease. I'm sure part of ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  on the first-most-exciting email of the fall semester. watch this space ... on the Internet. Due to my lack of unboxing-video know-how, I didn ... big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to see what the other two are like. Best of all, I am finally free of 9ams, and have no class at all on Fridays! First, there's 17

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020