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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... 're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a ... end of November, and have decided where I'm going for next summer by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  shots of MIT were done by a drone! I really enjoy all the tops of the ... almost looks made up--stereotypical MIT professor surrounded by tons of ... ; Simmons Dormitory   In the process of all the filming, one of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... energy in comparison to the apathy of my mother. Still, in my mom's defense ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  of the road from exhaustion and lay there until some dog came by and ... though trying to keep up with the energy of students. A thousand events ... only by the right kind of light, we still weren’t able to finish the hunt

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  part 1 of the application by choosing the 'fee waiver' option yet not ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  lover," "panty-dropping," and "we're all out of tacos") by giving you some ... with bated breath for an entry that never came. And by tens of tens of ... how much of my life has been shaped by the people I met, just because I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  your epic tales of slaving away through the night, aided only by a can or ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  club, the place would recruit a remarkable amount of energy to help pull ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  grinding — led fearlessly by Erin, the insanely talented head of Software ... parts of it held clearly in your mind, kept afloat by adrenaline. I want ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , which you can think of as my “energy”, or “charge”, or “productive hours ... dips or bursts of energy throughout a given day. And there are more ... feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the posts are connected by girders bounding the sides of the top ... -consuming and difficult process for 2 out of the 3 stringers, we screwed 2x4 scrap ... treehouse with a dome on top of it designed by Jordan T. ‘25 and Hanu S. ‘26

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... of the application material by November 1, and have made a request in ... Candidates reply Date. Other parts of the process have remained unchanged

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  note="of course, some of the ways that i’ve learned this are by being ... things that are “hard”[/annotation] (measured by a variety of ways ... quarter of my life, and by the time that I leave, it’ll be the longest I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... called The Disenchanted, written by one of the people who worked on the ... process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of continually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020