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• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  something like, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to ... accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  things are seen only in the way you intended, there is nothing to fear ... hadestown is a tragedy. the narrator, hermes, tells you this in the ... to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  is to work at a design studio in the future, and I was so excited to ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... former MIT students on the tube. This month, PBS is having competition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam ... 't the smartest idea; in fact, the professor might even ask you to get up ... , preparing for Sunday’s competition. The pressure is on to get MIT’s car ready

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is ... the bike while motivating them to push themselves harder. "In one game

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... foreign to me. the problem is not that i am unwilling to ask other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... and interesting. Mostly I've been writing code in MATLAB and C. The code

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose culture and residents feel like the best fit for you. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  material. It is, in the big picture to me, a tradeoff. In comparison to last ... campus which attests to the fact that there is literally so much that can ... exciting in them! CPW is in two weeks. I can’t wait to see all the incoming

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  shaped the way I came to see the world. I expect that most people reading ... interviews that ranged from the inane to the interrogative (often in the same segment). What's harder to express or explain is the impact that watching

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  conversations with people is definitely something that I'll need to work on in the ... Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing ... remarks made by Microsoft's CEO. In the most striking case for me, Yoky

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  there is great value in giving twenty-something-year-olds the right to ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who ... that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  much more stable place than the uncertainty that plagued me for most of ... hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  " came in handy... after brunch, i biked to [annotation note="the ... the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last ... trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  those shorts of yours will make you go fast in the water?") The truth is ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case ... had to "measure" the distances between the stars in the films we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008