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  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the ... Russian and Jewish folks. Tomorrow will be Selection Day 6; I also hope to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting ... . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  -filled college admissions discussion sites; this one made me laugh out loud: I ... ) 5. I forgot what the last one was, but it was some weird national ... , guarantee admission? I think not. We admit people, not numbers or achievements.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... # of the office suite I share with Matt and a few other folks, directly ... meantime I've finally responded to your most recent comments at the end of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... -so-closet romantic and beautiful poet, who has drunk more milk tea than anyone else I ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli! I will probably write more about this later."]participating in hunt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... is that I was trending one time on Twitter (lol). Did you know that

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their ... , although I may be a little gullible, their sign is so well written that I thought the art installation was put up by a real institute committee! I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  difficult: it has been truly painful. If you are among them, then all I can ... . I'm closing comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation ... . Congratulations to the Class of 2020. I wish all of our applicants well. No matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... ; Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just ... ever, except maybe DJ Khaled. Scrolling through my facebook feed, I was

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... captivating creatures. They were much smaller than I expected them to be, but I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ... like I had enough♪   ♫Today makes me feel something like summertime ... The tunnels mapped out on the back of my hand While you were laughing I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  my job I am constantly amazed by the caliber of character, intellect ... for everyone else. I hope you do. I know you will. I'm closing ... .  Congratulations to the Class of 2016. I wish all of our applicants well. It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on repeat from the floor above. I always smile. I know the musician, and I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... sea in the sweet wet velvet of winter eve, I looked up and saw a beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  Lobby 7. Paul and I will be on Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons ... ); Snively will be on Death From Above; and I'd assume Bryan will be on Too Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think ... luckily only one house was destroyed and nine others were damaged. I ... . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure thing was wrong, but it wasn't until I heard Ed Linethal's talk The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007