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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  the vast majority of applicants, most of whom were qualified to be here. To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  breakfast can only be cooked and consumed so fast, so by the time I got back ... great. You don't HAVE to take classes, or even be back at MIT- more ... IAP is perfect- 2 weeks in December wouldn't be nearly enough to unwind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and-chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear! Panic! To address the worry that follows the question what if I actually

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  the team's actualized potential to be good o = the offense d = the ... - may be able to help me further refine this model to account for ... Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  's lab that she would in fact be leaving MIT to move to New York with her ... trying to make me call them by their first names--one of my friend's moms ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... by a woman, to represent 2007's even gender ratio. To prevent such ... simple but meaningful, I will be proud to wear it for the rest of my life

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens ... , and instead of being forced to eat spaghetti with no utensils, there was ... transitioned to our group project that we will be working on these next four days

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  working on his own project, which appeared to be some elaborate three ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  . Unfortunately, this semester also turned out to be rather less exciting for me ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... .0 like most other schools. (This could be where my "inflation" reference comes into play -- if you don't adjust for inflation, these amounts sum to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  , brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog ... have previously come to MIT, including 8 Mile, Grosse Pointe Blank, School of Rock and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. LSC frequently (i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  , this UROP manages to be fun, relaxed, serious, and instructional, all at ... . This year, there will be about 60 counselors and 75 campers (ages 6 to 18 ... in time to head back to Boston/MIT for the summer :) This is where I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went ... the half-formed ideas, and usually, by the time I return to them, they ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their ... life would be like had I not given the Greek community here a chance to ... 'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... eventually make me both happy AND less sick because I’ll be able to pay for ... to being right on the line. All the points involving sleep As you can

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be ... 2017 as well. Because, to be frank, the world desperately needs it. I don ... ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend. Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012