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• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... satisfied to our rooms, to rest. On Thanksgiving Thursday, Denali ‘18 (who

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  proof. anyway, i applied for a credit card and i'm expecting to get it ... unprepared for the 麻辣. i still amn't, so i stuck to the blander food at five ... company, and alan worked for a 100,000-person company. we all have offers to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  to go on a long walk, and so I dedicated a day to preparing for it, a ... first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which ... problem set, that I never really got to slow down and focus on any one thing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for ... grateful for that. I felt like I had evolved too much for my environment to ... what you need to hear. For me, Wolf 359 was one of those things. My

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.   ... Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  , visiting seattle or looking for a couch to crash on for a few nights. we ... -night craving and wandered to safeway for ice cream, where we discovered that there was a four-quarts-for-$3-each sale on tillamook ice cream, and we

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

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  was crazy. Time for holiday cheer. But no time to get lazy. 2nd ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  linked to here on the blogs (although I wasn't a part of the "we", then). For your benefit, so you can all get to know each other in one central ... on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the ... While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As ... office) and will be making their way to your mailboxes accordingly. (For ... place to discuss whatever is on your mind.

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... is rumored to contain all of mankind's knowledge to date 6) Stu's water

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  character – for example, if this applicant were to show up wearing a jacket ... for an applicant to warn me, 'ok, you'll recognize me by my pink hair ... avoid startling your EC. As for changing your hair color just to impress

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  which are all pieces I've been kicking myself to read for a while ... added it before the first class. It meets on Tuesdays for two hours, and ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... onnn, I was just trying it on.") ... And we're really excited for ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can ... means for you. i wish i really knew what to say. i wish i had something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  classes I'd like to take at MIT and realized I'd be here for 8 years. So I ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  out phrases or clauses just to save on words, but I did it and felt like ... So on the MyMIT Admissions site, the 2005-2006 undergraduate ... mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four [annotation note="and an unspecified ... .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022