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• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... enough time to say hello to each of the colored balls in Simmon's (ex

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can ... once. They are gentle and severe. I want this woman to teach me how to ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  redesigning the homepage so that, in addition to the blogs, you also get a ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  . (Oh, and it's got facts and stuff on it.) With that in mind, here's to ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

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

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for

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

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  [/annotation]. Get the Libby app. Profit from never spending money to consume books ... borrowed it, and how long I spent listening to it. And so… after forty ... 41,207 minutes listening to audiobooks in 2023. That’s 686 hours, or 28

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... enhance who we are. How do we have time to paint murals? After a grueling ... together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... into a more in depth article or brochure to hand out to MedLinks as the ... 'm hoping to get it published so we can have cute little coping with anxiety

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings ... how to lift up our siblings of color. please, please read vincent and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... teach the incoming Medlinks class about how to Medlink and share my horror ... be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... personality and are relevant to the question. Think about if and how the ... how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... post) to UROP with the MIT Game Lab. Hopefully I get it, but we'll see ... on the next one. Happens all the time. I haven't figured out how to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who participates in conversations the most? How many words did each character say ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it, though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... was nervous about how this was going to compare to the "mana

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... in May, giving me something tangible to celebrate two years at the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... remember starting to giggle - and then my eyes were closed and I was in a ... shouldn't exist, but it doesn't) and used to be in a rock band. I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012