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• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  most popular intersection in the dorm. If my door is closed my room is as ... with what I think is the coolest paint job in the dorm. It belonged to ... eating, set to Clint Mansell’s “Lux Aeterna,” the most ominous music I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  there is great value in giving twenty-something-year-olds the right to ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i think it is the most probable one, but rather because it relates to ... , have told me that it is common to hear locals in their area compare the ... , specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  , houseplants, is the one album of a song in this list that I will listen to ... made the subtitle "i promise this post is mostly in english" but then I ... most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  " came in handy... after brunch, i biked to [annotation note="the ... the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last ... trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... a tough time finding the place where we were supposed to park, mostly ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  that darken whenever a television is in view. The second is low- power RF ... ." Celebrity is fundamentally heroic; even our most tragic celebrity narratives (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  -acknowledged among Sensible People to be the most awesome objects in the universe ... window is looking at hydrogen regions in the galaxy (actually, he just ... the end of something makes it awesome) and Arlo to my left is making

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  really mean to exist in this world as an adult” and “what do I owe to the ... meeting agendae, planned events, and did the work in order to make sure that ... survive. Is it my duty to give back in some way? I was big on duty in high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... arrangements similar to the most optimal setup found in the "Results" section to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this ... curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... homework, I obliged with a final exam. One of the most surprising things to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  . Anybody interested, let's meet in the 23 at 3ish. You're welcome to try to ... 's our group before our food had arrived, Zach is the one in the middle ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  team so much. I can’t wait to see what the post-season has in store for ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... win against Emerson, we are the first team to ever go 11-0 in our

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... toxins and animals in the ocean you are farrrrr less likely to jump in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in ... were being inspected in the video. However, what shocked me the most was

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... August being exciting. This, I think, is the point where I break to throw ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007