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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  Killian Court. (For more on graduation, check out Matt's entry as well the official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I decided to stay here in Boston this summer which according to rumors is

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post ... ) light bulb; 12 to play with the iPad (sigh), a few hundred for the fanfare

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... on their way for tonight's event. 8:20am: Ben starts spreading the word about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  , Dorota '10 said the same about Course 8, Physics. As for me, I've been pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is ... love New Jersey, for those of you just tuning in.) After....a lot of my ... rush dies down just in time for the weekend, which I will be spending out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... , donuts, dinners at fraternities. So keep the cash in your wallet for your ... Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some ... , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  Manning. While I have done so much for Andrew, I ask almost nothing in ... to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  then there was Hall Rush (or In-House Rush...I guess if you're in, say ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... cool out there in the courtyard: This interesting spinning ride, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  chip in December, demonstrating useful error correction for the first ... quantum engineering class in the spring. Next, when planning my classes for ... I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... said. In the next few days, we’ll be filling the blogs up with our last

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut back in March. The drive west gave me a lot of nostalgia. In junior high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  climbing for the first time in ages. I'm refreshing my 18.701 knowledge ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... joys in my life have been derived from small, private moments--a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog ... in pretty patterns and inspirational intentions. Making my scrapbook ... paper and give it a try. And if it isn't for you, well, I'm always taking

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  sitting in silence for 10 minutes, could only give us “an upper bound of 37 ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014