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  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs ... available over the phone or the web. Q. If selection is over, does this mean I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  the family, the death of a friend, the sadness of a friend, an angry anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very ... : Put both feet on the ground. Look around. Count the number of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind of nice, really: mario kart in the lounge outside, teasing the hall ... from a television tuner). it costs about $20, and (with the help of some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which comes out of the Human Dynamics Group, run by Prof. Sandy Pentland ... other end of the phone is really paying attention? The "Jerk-O-Meter" may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  : ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of ... survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too.  Natasha B. hails from McMinnville, Oregon, near the ancestral lands of ... A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... , I got an email from the administrative head of the Mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  nearby mountainside, a patch of particularly dense foliage has assumed the ... evidence of that. Time to go back down. Hiking is the only time that I don ... reading my blog. The aftermath. The moral of the story is to come to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying ... the bouldering wall. It was dark and drizzling. Out of nowhere, a guy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  found a calling in rap. Soon the first three tracks of our (yet unreleased ... creation of the “Bra” (brownie + bar) desert, which involved some interesting ... Blink! - “the state-of-the-art light & sound extravaganza that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... -and-a-half room apartment on the northern tip of Cambridge, not too far from MIT ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not ... certain I am still missing some in this blog. This “merch” I speak of does ... couldn’t be closer to the truth. As I packed up most of my clothes as the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on ... center of mass: I felt like this would have been too selfish of me. 6.The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that ... 's complement & bitwise ops are a good way to wake up. Oh, by the way: today ... We salute you. They say sometimes about MIT that of sleeping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... author is Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club. When I read for fun, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... , and I am so grateful for the opportunities! Preservation of the Frosh

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... has always been the black sheep of the trilogy and fans, myself included, are happy to hear *X3 SPOILERS* the death of Xavier, Cyclops and Jean

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014