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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with ... -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... material fine but I do feel like I need to figure out how to synthesize my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... art; it was more me struggling to learn how to use 3D modeling programs

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... some official record if i got covid and wanted to get paxlovid." when i ... , affecting my nose and inducing pain in my ears, it was difficult to fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... . the chicken coop in the backyard. the housemates who i've come to know ... internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... get from my Irish folklore class to a MechE class at MIT. I’m going to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  to give some thought to how people are going to get into and out of ... taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... send home money to her family. Though it was written in the 1930s, we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a different dorm – and still go to the lounge and fit in. 9 ... the only air-conditioned room in Simmons – a great place to be at the ... crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... to test and troubleshoot their products. In the case of an access

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  ...it sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... character, Billy." No biggie. It's okay to perform in a musical and sing a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  going on. As has been said before, MIT definitely does know how to party ... chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... through every single aisle and getting our bearings, we decided to start ... find was 1999, so who knows how long it had been around before it closed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... 'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  unintentionally danced around in black ice before getting back to our dorm. (In ... "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in ... waited in line and saved me a good seat. (How dare they call me inefficient

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love ... post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... with my little sister in Spain. It felt nice to have the gang back

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014