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  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'll still probably pile up everything you've worn for the past week at the ... wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  really you'd rather curl up in bed and put your shades down and never look ... essays for our awards applications, was on the drive team at the regionals ... semifinals for the first time in our team's history. And I realize, only now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  . Anyways, that’s enough about the very empty week that’s coming up for me ... frat offered me a bid, but I ended up turning it down for reasons that I ... I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  [Follow-up] ... For ropes, I would include that EC, as compared to other MIT ... . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  ’t have any plans for the weekend while Sang had his weekend all set up with ... ! Monday morning, we all woke up early for a day of practice presentations. I ... for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  for your enjoyment. 6:30 AM I wake up at an ungodly early hour ... ...[/caption] 9:45 AM On the way to the institute, I pick up a pastry for breakfast ... ’m going to mess it up, but it goes pretty well. For the mushrooms, I had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  [annotation note="occasionally 36 hours for some other hackathons. the point is that ... /or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high ... apply!), and one in the fall for ~1000 undergraduates. Our Fall hackathon

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation ... . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... place. Layers and layers have built up. I like how the less

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  -playing group here, and I signed up for their first game, which was held last ... to a handful of basic calls, and I enjoyed it enough to sign up for ... Course 15, and only signed up for the class on a whim. I’m really looking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  Allan G. ‘20 are identical twins ….” At the time, and up until about 1 week ago, we thought Elizabeth was wrong. Because for our whole lives ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  , Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even ... ; Michael C. '16 was also in Wyoming, setting up his professional camera to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for ... Action admission decisions are made in mid-March. You can still apply for ... financial aid application time so please be aware that it can take up to two

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... up clarifications of concepts we learned in class, I get a slew of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  timesheets we're supposed to keep for 2.009, I've spent THIRTY HOURS working on ... presentations are tomorrow night! I just bought a yellow accent piece for my business outfit (go Yellow Team!) for the final presentation and am about to

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

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to ... staring at the same screen. (Notice the ceiling tiles, which are up for ... (Editor's note: For rhetorical purposes, let's pretend that “today

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  . I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we ... blinked about staying up all night and finishing this huge pset. But I'm out ... I was a freshman, which let me run for days on adrenaline

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... from the waitlist. Financial aid will follow up shortly thereafter with ... students, approximately 70, on the waitlist for another few weeks until we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... applications, up 12% from last year. To keep to MIT's international student quota ... that this year's academic metrics are very high. For example, 92% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  then set up for the next event. But, from what I hear, you guys had a ... . I definitely had an awesome time hosting events for Burton Conner and ... Conner TV Lounge. When one event was over I'd clean up from it, take a 30

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007