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• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  was walking in the basement below the Infinite Corridor and I briefly ... 've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy ... in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... outside my own dorm window[/caption] It doesn't snow too often in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley ... , furthermore, I strongly believe that there is wasabi powder in my eye. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... Feb 20, it means: How did I gain 90 pounds? Aaargh! Gotta start soon ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who ... of the freshman perspective, and compare it to how I felt a year ago, and to how I feel now. I'm probably a little bit more focused, a little

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being uncharitable to myself, maybe I would say it was ego—contributing to such a high ... , and added what I could find. Out of curiosity, I also looked him up in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  in how a few greats, such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie ... As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I find my weekly/fortnightly blogs slowly phasing themselves out. As such I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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.735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS

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

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 ... campus. Without a doubt, I would pick my first afternoon because: 1) if you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then part of her head exploded because she couldn't figure out how I, and only

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... idea how it happened. It's about time for an external hard drive. Once I ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... the general store), I can still remember exactly how it happened ... , just didn't shower? Me too. But seriously, congratulations! In my 9

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... playing games and occasionally busting out some writing. In fact, I ... exercise, so I'm not stuck in the gym wondering what to do. I'm working out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... better than what I've seen in the wake of these events that have happened. I've never felt more proud of the MIT community  than I have in these

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... [annotation note="Not a joke. I earned a B in 5.12 with difficulty. The following semester in 5.13, I had a C on drop day so I disenrolled. Next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011