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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I took this afternoon. So, I should be relaxed right now, right? Wrong ... . Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the nonprofit I founded?? but maybe I should focus more on the research I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite ... ones where I know the founders. It really exciting to know their story ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For ... jump over anything less than a gilded fence.[/caption] The instructor ... assume means that these are the best and most beautiful ponies ever to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... up the bio and pics, and then waited some more until I came back to the dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV show "Sorority Life"? Read the book "Pledged." Think sorority girls are ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale ... Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... great view out over the shops. After dinner, we visited the Harvard

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  May I include supplementary materials with my application?

  Our admissions process is designed to be completed online. Creative portfolios in SlideRoom are available for researchers, performing artists, visual artists, and makers to submit supplemental materials. If you must
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the ... I think she did a fabulous job. She started learning in the fall on people around the dorm, and by Christmas was cutting hair often enough that

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  . Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a ... in my hair, five showers later. Steer Roast, the context for this amusing photo, is an annual party, held the first weekend in May every year

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  and keeps the weekend beautiful throughout the weekend. Unfortunately ... soon, but I'm so exhausted I've already fallen asleep twice during the ... Maguire). I've been so busy sitting out in the sun/getting my official EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... , engineering, and entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach ... thousand balloons- coincidentally approximately the number of balloons we ... possibly the greatest picture ever taken...)   ...Spam?   Ruth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the ... back then, except I didn't wear glasses. The Rap: "Neil Armstrong is my name, Planes and space is my game, First American on the moon, that

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the ... "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to ... graduate of my favorite school in the universe, and have a hockey jersey (and a degree, and lifelong friends, and...) to show for it! Sorry for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004