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  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has ... was still not what they wanted, and left again for good. So there's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  't qualified for MIT, or that your myriad achievements in high school weren ... For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in ... grape throwing, running around the basements, playing in the secret ninja

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... as the "international symbol for Frank O. Gehry architecture." This is ... saw in the Princeton Review book that she bought that MIT has one of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good ... precise adjustments in flight dynamics to compensate for outside conditions ... and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  motivation for that post was so I could up my count of "songs I've mentioned in ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice ... . This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events ... home for the longest time. in fact, i was fascinated and envious of ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student ... minute. For as long as I can remember, I was one of the smartest kids in my ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  metal torture but they give away smiles asking for nothing in return ... they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely adore everyone's writing and everyone in the class is super, super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the ... '22, President I remember being interested in Borderline ever since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... mesmerized by the sudden change in scenery that nothing else could infiltrate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never ... used to build terrific things back in high school - incredibly elegant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  (yet clean) quotes: "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can ... midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard ... against us so my miniskirt didn't flare up too much in the front, though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of ... regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again this year. The only thing we ask that you send in is a midyear grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  them was a big step for me in my origami design journey, and this ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... open yourself up, in essay after essay, decisions become really REALLY

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  struggling on deciding what exactly this is a metaphor for in my personality ... things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  in Brighton for $25 a person Scoring guest meal passes and eating ... drunk for the first and only time in my life Watching leaves change on ... after graduation)—and yes, I've witnessed these responses in the wild

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016