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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  whatever), and repeatedly getting caught on the laces of my badass new shoes ... on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  experience. I learned how NOT to epoxy my hair by accident, how to deal with ...  watermelon and lots more food from Shaws to [seemingly] the ends of the earth in a ... ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the ... JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... Dabney House and doomscroll on LinkedIn while waiting for dinner to start ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  strong believer in form follows function (as it pertains to music, not ... ) the entire work is designed in an attempt to maximize the power of the ... structures that allow computers to accomplish anything, ie. how is it possible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... 't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  friends and family loved  getting to see what I was up to, so I just ... day to write a long, thoughtful, and very personal email about how much ... emailed me to tell me how impressed they were with my sample robot design

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down ... .) There was even a high scores banner in Lobby 7: Hee. E1337. Get it? It ... a photograph. As I walked into Lobby 7, camera in hand, ready to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  someone to 7/11 to get snacks. parading in the middle of the streets of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting ... -distant, of course) a few times in the park near my house. we danced to old

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  authentic New Orleans second line procession (Parade) in and around Stata Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT campus from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the Stata Amphitheater. (Inclement Weather

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... with my mom. I hadn’t been back to China in six years, so it was really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is ... States, New York City, you would answer: Los Angeles. Answers are in the ... you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  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 ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015