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  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours ... student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... . (Nerd status, I know, but confession: I was much more motivated by the ... that time, I wasn’t really considering MIT, because as my earlier

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you ... and our whole process. I said I deserve it all I'm wakin' up at 6 a.m. Six miles a day, conditionin' my wind I said I deserve it all I'm showin

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not here! This actually made me LOL

  

  I'm hosed. I don't have time to write a real entry. Suffice it to say, I found this video funny. What happens in this video will not happen in a conversation with any MIT student. Therefore . . . you should

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Learn from my Mistake Aesop's Fables forgot one.

  

  Rule #1: Write legibly. Background: I wrote on a pad of paper that I scheduled my GREs for October 27, or that's what I read. Turns out my 27 actually was a 21. That was my rockstar move for the day. See you Saturday!

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  First let me say that I am touched that Sam dedicated his BAREFOOT CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him, judging by how many times I heard that "good neighbor policy" story

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have ... for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17 ... applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  When we first decided to coordinate 20th anniversary blog posts, I thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  It's been a while since my last entry. Right now I'm visiting my mom ... two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a Southern accent. Really, I still don't think I have a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... , Mitra! I went on the flying trapeze last year but this year I was just too busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  your schedule! And because the class changes from year to year, you can ... Excitonics explores organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and how they can be ... sequestration. Professor Angela Belcher, whom I've blogged about before, unites

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all, it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  , I mean.']special significance[/annotation] as the day I began my life and work at MIT, ten years ago today. I've been thinking about what I ... enormous, too [annotation note='I remember, shortly after I got my job I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I'm mostly excited. Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008