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• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  sphere of flames. One squinted at the screen. “Shouldn’t we see it already ... scowled at him. “Our calculations aren’t wrong,” he said. “The transit of ... and eating bags of black tea at my final exams. For about a month after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  I've spent the last seven days at home, eating my favorite foods (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our ... college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ! Muhahahaha: Some of my sorority sisters at the event: ZBT shows their Greek ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... governing bodies at MIT) in another entry, but for now, what matters most is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  admissions decisions via the web. We will release decisions at decisions.mit.edu on Saturday, March 18 at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. There's not ... strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... Dance Troupe president last year. Surprisingly, once you get an idea of

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  -quantum alternatives did not fit at all. Finally, at the end of IAP (a week ago), I ... somehow still ended up winning one of the categories. At this point, I knew ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ... fiction. All my other work, less holy, could be done in libraries or at my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  looked at it. rip. this technically was my first piece of [annotation ... yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... water on my laptop. it died instantly; the technicians at the [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  . g) Then we drove to Provincetown, which is at the very far tip of Cape ... increased, while "real" adults donning excessive amounts of MIT apparel ... level of Cambridge, MA increased with the arrival of my 10-year-old little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  from eight grueling hours of training. We're required to work at least ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them to cancel my room at Burton 1, since I'm not home day or night, and my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... meeting. I had dinner with two of the Philly EC's, Mark and Steve, at a nice ... dirty old man. 2) At the end when I talk about the advancement of women

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the ... presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in ... the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... of my friends this surreal video about studying math because the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  audience some great stories from his time at Burton Connor, one of the MIT ... project. I don't think I've ever felt as much of an engineer as I did at ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  talking to people outside of the MIT bubble. Basia and I once had lunch at ... One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... up a thick clump of snow and flung them at Kevin, but they scattered ... demonstrated. By flinging balls of snow at me :( And then he said those magic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020