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  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the ... , parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I'm ... Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a ... This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike ... seen someone ride a unicycle down Amherst Alley before. You can't get any ... shouldn't build our own transit system. Plus, this is a good chance to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  I know I haven't written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has ... to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  looks so darn happy doing it! I felt giddy. I didn't get a picture of it ... a picture of the MIT Hawai'i Club doing a traditional dance. They didn't ... Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process ... summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don't ... admissions offers for these schools won't be sent out for a long time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  semester i'm from 45 minutes away and i can’t go home once? i attribute it ... don’t have many close friends from high school. in a state of loneliness ... beyond thankful that i'm at a college with so many wonderful people

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  feelings out.” these were my three favorite submissions. “EC isn't a place ... indescribable- becoming a human isn’t part of the data the grownups gather. They ... , west, texas-y, I  don’t do anything. In the dark, I am a child, I don’t

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  who patiently unwind my whining when I’m complaining and come up with a ... [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... days that I am only just about halfway through. Life doesn’t even feel

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn't ... secret snowflake was not so cool anyway and didn't really deserve a reward

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a 5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  smashing all over the institute? No, that can't be right... Well, it's not a ... -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip ... Redmond! Huzzah! Although I’m a field intern at their Cambridge office – a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 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…

  

  believe that your dream can become a reality. I don’t know what Zahir ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  a lyft, or the caltrain, i find myself sleeping. it's not that i'm ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself ... lost, in a world where others don't seem to be. feeling reluctant to open

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  . that doesn't mean that a graduate runs the group themselves, but that ... isn't always a bad thing; it's a way to extend institutional memory ... in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  question my abilities as a CS person. I don't come up with the cleanest code sometimes, or it takes me a while to get things right. I don't really ... . I don't know what a stack is...or a heap...or any of those data

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  aren't all the metrics that a game is usually evaluated on but are the ... the job. There isn't really a *menu* in this game, only a screen that ... the world isn't a time eater because there just isn't...that much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  the information session who didn't have a parent or other guardian with ... the Fourth, as an MIT student, and I couldn't be any happier. I'm ... in town as well. And now that I'm not a freshman anymore, I can live

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008