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  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  doubt the power of the weather machine, but I assure you it's real! How ... experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to expect? You can read some guest entries (including mine!) from the current

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , look ourselves in the mirror and say, 'I'm responsible,"' Jones told her admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... of her daughter. "When she was in sixth or seventh grade, I was every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do ... never cracked a 6:30 mile in high school - I did enjoy the meets. My goal ... fast as we can, do you think we will make it" - running, no doubt I used

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... or recitation This is one of the few I can use as a general note of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I ... really are! I don’t think I can do my students justice by just talking ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... .Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical ... huge championship boxing match, and I was in the control room where they ... DID YOU KNOW? Stonehenge is not in Scotland. Okay, another cop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  reflection of how amazing God is. I’m in awe. Utmostly, and fully in awe. < ... the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in ... can connect with numbers. Even on a given street, we are unique in our

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how ... , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  am. I don't know how I did this 2 months ago, how do you pack up ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... Pauli myself. But I'm not in charge of that. I'm in charge of feeding 20

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  monologues that you can tell yourself the next time every bone and neuron in ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... late, I’ve been asking Dylan R. ‘24 to put me in “email purgatory” — where I’m stuck in my current location and Dylan stares at me menacingly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor ... I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you ... includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025