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• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions ... being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I ... applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  not because it’s the forbidden food of the gods but because it’s heated ... my head that the Glass Lab does not produce candy. I was starting to ... This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  years, thinking about not only the first time, but when i felt like a ... a lyft, or the caltrain, i find myself sleeping. it's not that i ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that ... THEIR CLASS MAILING LIST The name of the game is a photo scavenger hunt

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  “marrying a woman one day” is the assumption. So, I had to say something ... extreme tension, my mom stepped up. She is the hero of this story. When my ... fluidly changing her mindset over the past [annotation note="My dad is an

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply ... bases running around, though not necessarily in the same living groups ... and left all the others blank. In line with the Hall Rush policy of not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  point. And the point is that you should do things that are fun, even if ... question on the application, about what do you do for fun? It's not supposed ... been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  each dance. To extend the "coming-of-age movie" analogy, the CTY Canon is ... moment is a global or local extrema. The idea that any period of my life ... sure all these people understand it's not like years ago the fear of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  way could be severely hampered if one is constantly in the act of doing ... After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking in the long awaited spring sun streaming through the windshield and

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... mentioned in the previous question. Whether you like that or not is really ... .616 - Games and Culture (blogpost pending) is a class on the role of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  mind: enter Emily ’22. Emily is a part of the not-so-secret team and she ... Director and the other member of the project, asked me where Angela is from ... themselves how to animate and edit while doing the project. Not to mention, two

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL).   I had gone the whole weekend without a picture

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. It's not the holidays unless Sam ... . While you're punching the cattle, Sam's Mom is punching the dough. You ... students. While I could survive on Anna's Taqueria and get all the major food

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  "] ‎[/caption] The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber ... instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... on others. I think it's important to not let the absence of others

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ... overcast day began with a light drizzle. Though simple rain is never enough to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not ... ’s not the career for me. Last fall was the big moment when I told myself ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... the fact that not a single one of them was a pre-frosh. In a way, it was ... . Not necessarily by choice— the election process did involve moderate

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  : Summit Ruth: The first half means "to aggregate" and the second half is ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i've previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... decided to watch just the final season, which is 26 episodes. it took me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020