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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of ... representation of warfare.) I like fried chicken, hot dogs, the sun - and an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent ... the norm, but that's the beauty of it. There is no norm. I've seen

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... and Christmas cards for admitted prefrosh, scrub spam off of our entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it. Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not ... webmaster of http://www.qwantz.com (because of stuff like this already posted on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again. We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... modern understanding of quantum mechanics. It's just... none of it... feels ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the

  • 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 ... midlife crises[/caption] Every time you come home you are reminded of how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... crags of shadow underneath my eyes. when i dream the dreams are of circuit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  -thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple ... //    happiness of celebrating girlhood // celebrating art and uniqueness and strangeness // acknowledging the complexities of motherhood

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story ... MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... : just outside of Winnemuca, NV train: #5, one hour and 58 minutes late

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... this long at MIT without getting some form of disease. I'm sure part of ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022