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  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my ... felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong ... stranger suddenly appears in my life and we fall in love and live a long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos are in this order because we are student-athletes, not athlete-students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... ’s each class with a summary, in haiku form: 2.671: Measurement and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  the introduction: MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse ... times more students came from Turkey than from Texas.   In 1909

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case ... reason to share otherwise, and little captions of what was happening in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave ... lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  ! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with ... cosplaying efforts (even sometimes joining in). In my opinion, the Maker Faire ... in slightly different mediums. And that was awesome. If anyone who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16 ... stay in the dorm you are temped in or try and lottery into a different

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I've begun cold-brewing my own iced tea as per Kenji's ... on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Epic Split Feat. Tim Beaver (Live Test 6.28) with apologies to jcvd, enya...everyone, really.

  

  A few months ago Volvo released an ad called The Epic Split in which Jean-Claude Van Damme did a split between two trucks as they drove side-by-side backwards into the sunset. It was an epic split, but, in our estimation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring ... lot more things to consider than I addressed in these few panels.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... . In order to gain some valuable experience manufacturing products, we get to design and manufacture plastic yoyos in this class! Definitely

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto ... IN THE HELL?" Giggles floated across the hall from the other summer ... , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  their humble beginnings at a music venue in Chicago in 1986. The structure ... /poems in no particular order. Franny Choi's "Ring Around The Rosie" Sarah ... Slam is held in a different exotic location in the US and, for the second

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013