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  On schools & context

  

  more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... . Let me try to catch up on a few questions (while I'm still backed up ... 't compare two applicants to each other. We evaluate each applicant on their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , so I might be on to something?  HIGH SCHOOL I started running ... basketball confusing (it is still, to this day). How are you supposed to know where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  their research to MTL's industry sponsors like Lam Research and Global ... about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  Wicked soundtrack with my THX speakers cranked up to MAX bass. I am AMPED. Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time... MY LOVE LETTER TO

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  It's time to answer your questions ... 'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... are pretty much set on going to CPW with me, how is that going to work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... want to avoid arbitrarily ranking critically acclaimed books higher based ... Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... on a daily basis. If I actually did want to publish a paper on the ... asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them ... -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship ... concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his expertise to the challenge. TIM has been taking some courses at Sloan and is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  the scenes to see how a fashion show is made. [caption id ... will be walking the runway today. I stop by to say hi and snap a couple pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on time due to mental health issues, but I’m thriving, and I’m a health ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday ... place over our student holiday, from Saturday, October 12th to Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... symbols they use when they’re too lazy to write out full words. Are we even using the same language? I can’t understand what they’re trying to say

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  consistent tradition, and if I had to guess, they'll continue for a while, considering how most of the bloggers listen to more music than ~95% of their ... always been on top. slay fatima did a lot of listening to TSwift this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... you will get. I'm writing a separate blogpost on my tips and tricks to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... to hold friends. As I realized another acquaintance had left without us

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce ... , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most ... ventilated everything, but I felt pretty damn awful to be potentially putting ... tested negative for COVID, but this did little to assuage my concerns

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020