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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  again in a couple of months. If you didn’t get the answer you are looking ... travelling halfway around the world. You need to challenge yourself in order to ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... hold everybody in the admissions office to that vague decade-old promise ... your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  getting stopped in the halls. It's awesome, but I'm starting to lose my ... hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... least there's no more sleet. 6:05pm: I get a chance to upload some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... Bombers or the Cultural Houses in New House). The walls are more likely to ... math and science, never get in trouble, and do nothing but study all day

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit ... wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  little seminar where we're presumably taught how to design spaces while ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... recounted how he had been approached about participating in the debate and how ... , the hundreds of people in attendance were permitted to vote on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in ... couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then ... magical in the mundane, to see the extraordinary in the habitual. Here goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... important to this story.) Someone called us about thirty seconds in and said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how technically creative students ought to pitch their projects to colleges. Last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get ... stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates, decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  joint letter to President Obama from more than 150 colleges describing how ... understanding. I learned that when William Barton Rogers founded MIT in order to ... to join the party. If you don't know how to do something there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  community was quite closeknit in many aspects. I was just so glad to see that ... student'. Sad to leave but eager to come back to Boston in the fall! And ... had come to MIT CPW with excitement but also deeply rooted stereotypes

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008