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  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  people across the continents are actually celebrating is not an event which ... rude or mean, even if there is not an excuse there is almost always an ... 's gossip. One of the most satisfying feelings in the world is being a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for ... mind! #1 - The Beaver Club The Beaver Club is an unofficial student and ... - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  that "Whatever may change in Washington... it will not change the values ... procedures have not changed. Undocumented students may still apply using the ... students will not change. We will do everything we can that is legally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Icarus Girl, and What is Not Yours is Not Yours in the last 10 days since I ... characters whose diversity is not the point of the book. The different names ... much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down ... it's not the goal. It's the beginning. Enjoy the last few months of high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... -threatening problems. Two doctors strode into the room, not wasting a second. As he ... experience the real world. I was not welcomed by the College Advising Office

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  candy is involved.The sidewalks were pure chaos — a blur of dinosaurs ... (actually outside not in my school gym) but the spirit of it was the same ... Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Jess is special and I am, well, not. Blizz queries: How'd you pick your ... wasn't for me, though. This is the point of the Housing Lottery in the ... Zambia? That's cool - one of the guys living a floor above me is from South

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  president of the entire Dormitory Council, which are certainly not small ... ,[/annotation]and, in the years immediately post-COVID, there simply was not a lot of ... everybody on a team is happy and healthy and working together, and who has the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  . doing a stupid Traditionally, the sophomore stupid is performed by ... just did right? Well, it’s called the sophomore stupid, not the first semester stupid. Unfortunately for me, there is no overlap between the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  straightforward, but winning them was not. The top-ranked players of each game were ... students. Round 3 is identical to Round 2 (you will be paired with the same ... and Visualization Similarly to the last two games, winning is very

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  . Reform is important, but the UA must not become so preoccupied with ... Marissa '06. Anyway, the point of this entry is that as of Monday night I ... things are not as they should be in the UA. I've thought a lot about this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  "Not the same few colleges," but I hope my point is made. Yes, we do our ... "Not the same few colleges," which also consumes a reasonable amount of ... In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  opinion, is the stupidest way to choose to not drop something. I am not ... the small things mean a lot to me. the point is not to fill up every ... level. so, maybe feeling like things are unfinished is not that bad. the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  admitted students determine whether or not MIT is the right fit. For those of ... -qualified applicants is a daunting task. I'm excited about the choices we've made, while ... Education. RSI, which is free (except for the application fee), actually has a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that ... /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  the time it’s not that dramatic. Even failure is not often that dramatic ... why it’s important to ask for help when you need it. Today is not the ... started class???? Like what??) (It’s apparent that disease does not know the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM-DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  feel like taking the Physics GIR is like being at a buffet with all ... to say that this is the bane of my existence this semester. I know this ... , here are the more substantive stuff: 8.02, in many regards, is pretty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... is a Chancellor, anyway?” The job description is actually pretty simple

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011