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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  yet, somehow - in a few hours, I would be running around the kitchen in a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... would happen. That's life, and I felt secure in my priorities. Most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... learn about how some stylistic choice in films (choosing what dialogue to ... popular tropes in horror films, early horror genre movies would often

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... we could feature it on the website, and they said yes! Starring ... Nikita Khlystov Lili Sun Zach Tomlinson I also want to give a special

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown ... “go with the flow, ride the wave of life” mentality is so fulfilling – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  latter, let's just say that I knew it would be successful from the ... kidding, dogs are my favorite animals in the world and this would be a ... final was to compete in a Top Gun shooting competition. ...I didn't win

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... to see how all of our hard work would pan out. The Muslim Students ... in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  not send in that extra recommendation. Instead, I would put the relevant ... MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I ... this hinder or aid my application in any way? And where would I mention

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I ... -breathing startup, whereas I'm still thinking in a more theoretical realm... I love

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  idea what people do in most majors (and where I would fit in), and a ... extroverted, I hope we can get along. Boy, did I underestimate how well we would ... proof based mechanics class. Each week, I would spend 5 hours in class and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good grade, because I spent 100 hours on this project." or "I slept in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I ... one towing. It was little enough that I decided I would try to bring my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  for the next 4 years? How much do I want to learn? What would I give up ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am, blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021