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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby ... slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  Sorry for being MIA you guys! I've had a tough couple of weeks, but I ... it was well worth Friday's deliciousness. My friends and I normally go out to dinner on Friday night as a reward for working hard all week

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling ... Mikey since last year's waitlist decisions were posted in May?!" Well

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  have memorized course numbers or already picked out your living group. I ... interview required? No, it's not required, but I highly suggest having one ... would fit at MIT - something the paper application alone can never match

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and ... is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in ... March 2004 in the Boston Globe. After you read it you'll know why I love

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... the students in each living group. If they’re hanging out at events ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  this time. In theory, pretty simple. In theory.[/caption] As you can ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non ... [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I ... there are many more flavors sold in other markets; I couldn't possibly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  interminably for the bus, wrapped beseechingly in our coats. As I silently wept ... unusability of this MoMA interface, which I can't resist snarkily paraphrasing ... (Jazz Harmony and Arranging) - I didn't really find out about non

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic ... sincerely apologize if she wasn't able to sign your forms after I skipped out ... “stick of chapstick,” which has bothered me so deeply in the past that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... led us in making them. They came out great... November 5: Political ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... in MacGregor, and I can see "GO C's" projected on the Prudential Tower

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay.⁠ I’m closing ... you can. I hope you will.   ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... : Floor in Popular Science? Hi – I’m an editor at Popular Science and I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  school, I was determined to complete everything I set out to do. In my ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• 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 ... Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in ... (which was great), and I watched the entire second season of Kakegurui in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I ... Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005