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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... , in my graduation speech, with strangers I met at conferences. After I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... no photography is allowed either. But, I can understand why photography ... ;t even mention two other floors in the museum!) but I would rather

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  how big you can make your vessels. At the end of week 1, I ended up with ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop ... pull evenly, as fluctuations in wall thickness can make your pot unstable

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a ... like that? What are your hours? Can I even trust you anymore? (Absolutely

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... .  I have this friend who, lately, will not stop replacing lyrics in ... find good links in huge articles. I wish I could tell you what articles

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  standard upon myself. I can no longer rely on 'your mom' jokes to distract ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... ). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address in mid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... professional photographer, he takes more time at each photoshoot. How far in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  incorrect. How should I fill in the self-reported coursework section? Should I ... given no specifics as to how. The only grades I can be positive about are ... portfolio, but I have no means to send in the pictures of my work. Can a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I ... , functions that can be roughed up and left in an alleyway. If pi and e had a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire ... Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... movie derail me from that. I was thinking about how no colleges ever ... our office might visit 50 or so of them in a year. I know from talking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... news and puts me in a good mood, even though I'm studying physics right ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... ? That’s fantastic! I can relax, travel, take some classes, get an ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  “Omg. If I get in next week, I’ll be easy livin' for the rest of the ... was very, very tough. But in retrospect, I would say the sweat, doubt ... can’t be all summed up in rewards just yet. Work and motivation don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  dialogue: “Ravinder, you can do calculations in your head that the average ... there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... environment, not the flower.” And while I’ve always found value in those words

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... leaves…and pork belly, in massive quantities. I ask the nice man at the ... so I’d never actually learned how to make them beyond “haphazardly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023