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• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year ... . 18th, Mira Loma, Sacramento session." Aha, oops. You can RSVP at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT ... over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you ... 's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  the stars over our heads and the dome at the back of our peripheries, we ... blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three ... the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  fantastic thing to be a part of. While scrounging for housing at the beginning ... , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at MIT, the new VWR is now double the size, has double the number of racks, has a new turf speed and agility section, and a bunch of other fun

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news ... I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of ... of finishing all my requirements at the last minute like that has been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my ... different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... spending a year at Cambridge taking amazing classes that didn't fulfill

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  will love it. At this point, I am really scared of technology. It ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time ... a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  parts - Sometimes more powerful The Cons: - Not mobile - A lot of equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do most tasks of a desktop The Cons: - A little more expensive than

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he ... -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  grabbing fistfuls of it, throwing it at my sibling and giggling as I ran away ... at MIT always brings a smile to my face. It’s a small modicum of life ... ’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... everyone is feeling hosed right now - yup, and it's ONLY been 4 weeks of ... ideas. So, you all probably has heard that "getting an education at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... -student. No school – just a soccer practice at 8 am and another at 2 pm, mid

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  . Staring at them, I got the sense of a one-man industry. He said the work ... printer at the start of last year (after his internship with 3D Robotics in ... white under the wintry fury of snow). As he stared at the dome, it finally

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  make a person feel at home. But acquiring a sense of happiness, sense of ... Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012