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• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4 ... luckily Paradorn learned to read Andy's serve and the game heated up. In the end, Andy won 7-6, 6-2 (and he later beat James Blake for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Admissions instead. My girlfriend and I dated for awhile longer, then broke up ... for all four years (they don't), or whether MIT students ever study ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very totalizing and for people to decide to only focus on one component. clearly ... : wow, i actually like this framework a lot p: for what it’s worth, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... are practically sporting events, with grown men jockeying for position ... I did most of the baking for my family, my mom actually did most of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the ... considering my parents' place) i stayed here for, in total, two years, which ... 't be on campus for a while i'll be in et, and the next time i'll be back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  yeah, after staying up for 30 hours and working for 22 of those hours ... , going for a Guinness world record for largest/most pies (way too big ... used volumes to scale up normal pie recipes. After we had our ingredients

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you'll see what I mean). Nine years later (NINE YEARS? I'M SO OLD) I signed up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day ... growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it ... with sleep deprivingly awesome events for an entire weekend. Good luck

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for ... profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  , and most importantly....food. (seriously, there's so much food for you ... for students who accept admission called REX that's dedicated to ... , and convince you to join up should you join us here at the 'tvte. There

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  Preparing for College or not*

  

  As a pre-frosh, excited and stressed for my first year at MIT, I often looked to the blogs for advice. Every question I had seemed to have ... anyone writing about: how stressful the last few weeks before moving in for

  • by Hala K. '29
  • August 15, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags ... , someone else called me to help wrestle for fake money. I came to help and ... caught up with a few people, and climbed to a couch suspended from the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there ... -wizard tournament that is MIT. You all have worked so hard up to this point, finding ... here is my deep life advice, for application day and forevermore

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... grow up," said Laura Nicholson, a third grader at Ocean Avenue Elementary ... me. I studied Spanish for about 7 years in high school, but after my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  campus, I take the elevator up for anything more than two floors, and I ... community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching ... everything I ate for a week. That also made me self-conscious, this time of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and flew across the country for California where I am currently lying on a ... and by the home cooking that I’ve come to miss exponentially so, but for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  !! ^_______^V (^ my attempt at building up enthusiasm :P) What: Send me an ... . captions) affiliation with MIT (year, or year of application for potentials ... . My email is up there in the banner - I'm curious to see what all of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... ' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011