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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... 'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  before, and you can see a more complete history here, but I thought it'd be ... I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened. And maybe I can get ... Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I ... -less life. :P Nemo just getting started in Boston -- dedicated joggers

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case you can't tell, that inscription says "MIT Fire Department". The CPs appreciate good hacks too. I got this far-view shot that includes these two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of inflatable rafts with a hot dog grill in the center raft?' and [name I don ... in kindergarten that I could do anything if I tried, so I ignored

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... activities. In other words, Orientation is in full swing! This also means that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  algebra class to confirm that I’d made the right decision in leaving Wall ... I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  's) In the interest of full disclosure, I should report that one of the ... On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap-as-anything-in ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  after I sent them pictures 🥲), but photos can’t capture the amazingness ... last.  In fact, I’m really just amazed that we were all awake to witness ... despite my two previous failures, I can now say that I officially a PE

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s cartoon? ARTHUR: (bristling) If I were in a cartoon, I”d probably be named ... "refined"... or as refined as a name for a pet human can sound. I call him

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... ="53276" image3="53274" image4="53275" image5="53273" image6="53277" /] I’m in the ... past five years now, and it’s finally settling in that I don’t even know

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... I should have posted this entry five days ago. Sorry, world. But as awesome as blogging is, sometimes academics comes first - specifically, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in thousand of miles and an entire country away (in Toronto), I can only send my ... size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  courtyard. Home. I’ve been in quarantine ever since, waiting for the end of ... water fountain.[/annotation]In spite of it all, the sense hasn’t faded. I ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... walked to Kendall Square Cinema to see Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.I ... , as I remember them: "You can take almost anything away from a man. His

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  ’m sorry to say that I took a more conventional route, as I stayed in lab ... from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... already completed. Procrastination can definitely be justified by that bonus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office ... can do, so try to have some fun in these next few weeks. Hang in there ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007