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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  loathsome days, my meals were the main thing I looked forward to. In fact, in ... expensive, I didn’t like the food in the dining halls much or the constrained ... couldn’t eat[/annotation]. To make matters worse, I ate alone in the dining

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note ... on its own), and the Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack is my go-to for ... grow, from their infancy in the 50s to their slightly older childhood in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... scheduled for July 24th at 10 in the morning. You're all applying to MIT, you ... . Attention MIT students, BART is SO much nicer than the T. Why? 1) It

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the ... to take into consideration is what you want to get out of the UROP, and ... during your interview) - if you want to be seriously involved in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  ’ve found is to try appreciating the tiny moments in my daily life that I have ... and the problems you attempt to solve.” Much of my cooking is driven by ... ,[/annotation] to say the least. Yet it is exactly this period of introspection that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  desire to defect from Course 6 that still remains in my soul. The Faucet is ... . The next day, I ventured into an underground mall to buy a screen ... overcome. The Faucet In my freshman fall, I was unfortunate enough to end up

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ’m like - HEY! That’s great! And then I remember, the public library IS MY NO.1 MOST FAVORITEST THING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It's an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  scientists and engineers in the world. Fall Career Fair is commonly referred to ... 's just so much to do here. While I was waiting in the airport, I was ... home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to ... ’s his duty to chat about the Yankees and the Red Sox with the person in ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... with most hobbies at MIT, the transition to college rigor made it hard to ... program to help us with remote work in the age of COVID. Alex has also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  to Pecker.       This is what I come home to in the evening. I get to ... things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which ... awake to hang out with. The only time when everyone seems to be asleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  the first three terms, I treated MIT like most upperclassmen have in the ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... . Focus on deeply understanding the material. It is important to note that

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  with it, which is why the discussion feels very much incomplete. in my ... great since Currents is one of the most influential albums on the floor in ... . according to her, it seemed fitting since the game is set in a British town (C

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  Junior in Michigan who is considering applying to MIT next fall. Recently ... friends at other universities have to stay in the college they applied to ... to the extreme right in the 3rd photo??? You write really well Jkim

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  will to work as a unit. To not buy into that is to diminish the ... that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was ... - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12 ... season, and there is a line to the summit past the 8th or 9th station - but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... 't comprehend the reality of being told not to come back after spring break. In ... to announce. Most of the screenshots had no clear source for the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... . The remaining challenges mostly lie in engineering, not esoteric plasma ... yawned wider by the day. In every field I turned to, the same question

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024