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  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a ... worse job? Wouldn't that be better? Today, I am proud to introduce to you a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this ... boy enthusiasm. I can’t help but get as hyped as them, and soon enough ... dozen times in several disorienting patterns of color.  As I wander

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... in a while, you can pull out something (an "event") which could have ... ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  't know how I had time to bake brownies, but I fit in somehow! They were oh ... , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... from Fountainhead or Jugghead. The "Every Important Lesson I Learned in ... same goes with movies. Yes, Cool Hand Luke is steeped in allegory and I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  be smart and I knew how much I liked the people in the admissions ... Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I ... I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  , and I have no clue how many minutes it was, I put in three whole ... tired of rice. That's fine. You can cook oatmeal in a rice cooker. I put ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... Was Here. It goes: But I love you more than words can say I can't count ... you more than words can say I wrote it because I didn't feel "sad enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining hall solely because I was really just that bad in the kitchen. Well, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... .  You make me wonder if I’d be a comic artist in another life

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn ... far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old ... the personal pronoun “I” in proofs. After hours of absorbing the style

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes ... yesterday. In this paper, I analyzed how general relativity progress was both ... , I can always look back at my actions and make arguments for how

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  normal day, we'd be gathered in Killian Court, and I'd be kneeling on the ... . And I know that, in this time of tension around the pandemic and rising ... . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... can agree to because we're all human. In a world divided along many ... tongue-tied when I told her how close I was to him. I didn't even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  's lab that she would in fact be leaving MIT to move to New York with her ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... always says, "Oh, call me Terry!" I can't!! Even at my interview with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that when I got my admission letter in the mail, at first I was excited ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get ... institution of science and technology on the planet.  I moved into New House

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024