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• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  set up before we release decisions at noon. If you're looking for a way ... -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... amazing thing for me and calculated whether my job is net joy or net sorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  's an avid drummer and dancer, with whom I hope to one day build a drum ... competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both ... stuff. Talk. And don't always feel like you need to have a p-set in hand

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  be prepared for anything. Boston is a great walking city and I hope you ... events created with you in mind for CPW and it really is just the tip of ... and this message is basically for those hardy souls who have spent the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... order to decide who begins the debate. With a call of heads, Team ... for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  time and access to reference images. With his work I have no idea. then they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... … Even though he placed first and I placed fifth and logically we both

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  both Richard and AoPS, along with lots of other great programs and people ...  founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  process? 2) what does the admissions office look for in applications? and 3 ... ” mechanical engineering track), I need to submit a plan for the requirements and ... a study break for members of the class of 2009 to provide feedback

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  passage to sit in a classroom after school with a dozen other kids and watch ... highway with the paper still secured and pull over. Realize that it's a ... lessons a month out and decide that maybe you'll fly for most of for your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big ... feeling of having a longgggg day of class, and preparing for a longgggg ... DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... at MIT", and had a nice bonding experience with Juan :) Negatives ... out over a few posts, but thought I'd begin with two stories: one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  at MIT. They're really fun and make me feel a lot more in touch with my ... other interns and I decided to get rush tickets for a Saturday 1pm showing ... and they've been such a comforting band for me so I was really happy to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  on this. For now, let's do a time warp and go back a couple hours. It ... Kresge lawn playing ball, and a few minutes later we had formed teams for a ... afternoon, tossing beanbags and footballs around with a nice breeze blowing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  are for longer narrative pieces, with a lot of meaning and effort behind ... and things, with small instructions and reminders and smiley faces. And ... set to play on after students’ efforts for Kendall Station" - a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  the Maine mountains, at a Renaissance Fair, and roaming Boston with two ... MIT, where I unpacked and braced myself for a week of orientation ... out to dinner - and took an hour and a half long walk - with two friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young-looking ... for my project at work, a new and important project that I completed ... your number?” and held out a hand with a bloody tissue in it. Did he cut

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  to include 11 rhymes with the “a” sound in “Macbeth” and 5 with the “a ... with fast-paced sixteenth notes, but plays a fluid and undulating scale ... than with family.  Hamilton’s preference for work also leads to a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  , and—one two three, one two three. i’m on the beat again. we dance for a ... with it. it’s gonna happen, and it’ll look smoother if you act like you ... tuesday night. it’s a phase three waltz, and i’m dancing as the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  ; filmed a dance video with a friend  i desperately longed for people to ...   sang anime karaoke with my ‘13 friend in Chinatown and also talked a bit ... ordered four pints of Ben and Jerry’s with my roommate to prepare for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  look to for guidance and laughs and hugs, people who make me feel loved ... 10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... and tears of confusion have fallen. My desk was once loaded with worn

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  he said it went well and that he was happy with it. After a pause, he ... with books. Posters lauded anarchy. There was a big flaking black-and ... store was empty, except for the owner and his friend, who looked at us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013