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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things ... :30 AM (cough. Next House, Monday morning). Your backpack: not as ... delightful squelching sounds after a while (see 4.) Everything is wet. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  it is today. His writing has entertained, informed, and inspired. And he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to ... the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not ... 've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted ... time than everything else I'm doing this semester, but it is absolutely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  wrote. Disclaimer: this is not admissions advice per se but maybe the way ... connoisseur. Unfortunately, the nearest Indian restaurant is a ways away. Whilst ... recovery opportunities: David, Michelangelo 1504. “*Why* is this the answer

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  in the kitchen. somebody always makes sure the stovetop is clean and ... bare. and mit is here, too, as a sort of virtual public. on the dorm ... solved p vs np is legit or not. i get into speculative discussions about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  [/caption] When I first met them, I did the very American thing of “Hi! My name is ... relented and went to the technicians for help. It was not the accidental slot ... and also play tourist on the weekend in another country, but even the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  get drawn for this lottery. I did not accept the position because I was ... 'm tired of skirting around this. One of my biggest regrets at MIT is not ... group. One of the great things about MIT is how varied our living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  group, your host is the house, rather than a particular person). You ... first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list of things that the female is supposed to do - that was written by

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is[annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... , the month of fresh starts and new beginnings. This September is one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  meetings and talking about what it is I wanted to do. I wanted the controls ... and faculty are immensley welcoming and open, but the responsibility is ... alliteration.   But I digress, after all I'm not here to wax nostalgic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  , and usually the entropy of activation required for that process is just ... -related conversation, which is enough time to exhaust most of the finer points of that ... DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  [/annotation]. This rejection therapy experience worked, but not in the way that I ... to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , where Copernicus was writing to suggest that the Sun and not Earth is at ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... of duct tape Why Italian food is the best What is the average

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  the way my room is set up is that I can't open my window because the ... was not in the right mindset to do them the night before. I was so sleep ... dropping: 3 All nighters pulled: 2.5 This week has been really bad. The

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  comics. Spoiler alert: I didn’t win. Probably why the title of this blog is “The Photos of Freshman Spring” and not “HEY CHECK OUT THE $1000 I JUST ... The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a ... that blew glitter into the crowd. Glitter. You can't not like glitter ... guys! Also make sure to check out all the designers, because they're all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  —preemptively, at that—is nothing but painful. The seniors got to experience four ... This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I ... note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not ... speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm. Jacobs is also a former MIT graduate student and faculty member. I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  . Why the heck not? Anyway, I missed that quirky place already, but at ... During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was ... "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013