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• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my ... [annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an awkward middle spot: life wasn't quite full enough to feel that the semester ... between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  highlight his legacy through our collective memories.   The official ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... prioritize and humanize people the way Professor Winston did. I took this

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the philosophy behind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... understanding MIT. So I fired up the old email client and sent the following email ... , and I am overseeing the projects. We are working with Upstatement, who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  itself), it felt foreign, nothing like walking through the familiarity of the infinite. Maybe it seems silly, but even grabbing something out of the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time ... green if the sun is up, ginger turmeric if not. i've been reading and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email address specified on the application. This year (as all years) the process ... college the best they can be. Like most things in life, what you put into

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry, but we’re not obligated to make it fit the theme so long as we

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  that the impact an individual biologist could make was negligible because ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed the weather in lovely Los Angeles, California for around 5 years before The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  us at MIT. [1] Who'd have thought MIT doesn't own the rights to Calvin and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... 've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she ... her two nights ago, so check out the videos below. If you have any

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20,000 feet in the air, you feel deceptively little motion; you'd only know it by looking out the window. As long as you're sitting, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  on LGBQT life here. The short story: MIT has renewed their You Are Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010