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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  playlist, and we did. Here it is - listen to it while you read this post ... listening to it on repeat as well. Music is contagious. The Last Ship by ... Tunes, although it was nice to have premade playlists in genres that I liked. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  it is going to help them get into MIT. So where did this idea come ... .   It is indeed unusual for a school like MIT to have no preference for ... privilege for the advantaged.” For you to receive legacy preference, it means

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  , random funny videos, and musicals. Whatever it is that you go to when you ... , but it is actually uncanny how déjà vu senior year of college feels. It’s ... to fill out. Though, it was very cathartic to write these first two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  , especially when it comes to something as important as finances. Is the reply ... apply to law schools straight out of undergrad each year. Is it difficult ... necessary; it all comes down to your reasoning, which is I'm happy to say is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  understand parts of it pretty well, or are beginning to. This is of course ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I ... 't mentioned here before is my feeling that it is super under-appreciated by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... great, if not THE great living glass blower, Lino Tagliapietra, is working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap ... bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , it's time to accept the fact that another class is about to start applying. I know it's fun to complain on the internet, I do it all the time, but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  realize they made a mistake but feel that it is unacceptable to switch back ... are able to reject it. it is like how neoclassicism is not the same as ... okay to change your mind. it is okay to change your mind twice. it is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  it's amazing how much help and good will is available to you if you ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... needed to write quite a lot to say not just what it is like, but why we ... checked well. It is no fun to just guess from ten possible answers where

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  for the class is such that it's easy to use it to escape from daily work ... First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And I really wanted it to pay off. I put a piece of myself into that ... hard that it becomes a big part of my life, or I let it fall to the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on ... is a lovely picture, and I've been trying to find an appropriate ... I don't want to make this blog too political--I will not use Turkey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  .679[/annotation] last semester, I use it here to design the PCB. The first step is ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning ... I'm using. Here we also specify how each component is connected to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  grades. ------------------------------------- Is it too late to send in ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... unfavorably because it is missing an application component at this time. We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Schmill Dean of Admssions Now is no time to despair! Lucky for us, we ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year ... choose one place over the other, let me know... It happens to the best

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  wanted to write to you as soon as possible. It's a very sad day for MIT ... when we've had the chance to digest it further, but right now we ... surrounding our selection process. Frankly, this is what it is, and there

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  more than 50 years ago. What I love about CAPI (as it's called) is the ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018