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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... using the other bathroom closest to my room, which is an entirely normal ... browsery in the second floor of Hayden library because I wasn't ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... room is covered in things that fly -- planes hanging from the ceiling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... incredibly rejuvenating when used correctly. In fact, this seems to be the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  measures, support networks, just seems to have gone out the window in favor ... humbled me so much, this semester. I don’t know what’s going on in the ... ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I ... “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  .   I guess, in the end, this is what I'm trying to say. MIT is hard ... student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white ... themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... 't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• FAQ / Transfer

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  The transfer application costs $75. Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011