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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  exception of half a leg and an antenna. I figured it would be a waste of a ... food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... time here. And yes, I have remembered how lucky I am to be here every day ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... photograph of a swing and how that image says more about the world than any

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I ... . The assignment isn't about making something that would exist in reality

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn ... above I've explained how MIT's student body has seen an uptick in ... think about how it would have been to be a woman at MIT when only 5% of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be ... out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend, Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  edition of HowToGAMIT. I ended up volunteering to be HowToGAMIT's treasurer ... Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  get creative with scaling i guess, but that would change their position ... any part of it! I'm also a big fan because of how many vegetables I can ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked ... I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , he vanished in an instant. It would be another year until I saw him ... –1973 application cycle, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you all ... list While today I would tell applicants “There’s no need to apply early

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... that we had afterward, was what would eventually turn into the video you ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out ... would sink in and make my skin crawl. I had had enough panic attacks by ... on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009