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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been ... become a role model to the bulk of the community that watches. For the past ... young boys he'd met through the charity he founded for underprivileged and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  . 6:00 PM -- Step aerobics PE class. 7:00 PM -- I cheered for the ... in lab, be on the cheerleading squad, and work for the admissions ... information elsewhere, for example in your personal statement or in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they ... looks like. Also, there's less emphasis on memorizing material for exams

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that would be less terrifying ... will be plenty of time for applications after the maintenance is ... for the millionth time. That's good, too. Just try not to panic.

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  're waiting for a reply. Ditto on the comments/Questions Omnibus. It's still ... A few quick things today: We have admitted 16 transfer students for the fall semester. More info and data on that when I know more.If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  ’s the email I pored over for so long. [caption id="attachment_107005 ... for the time being. Unfortunately, the rain washed our creation away ... the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  . be careful about the language you create for yourself). i assumed that ... , this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... , seeming strange or feeling too uncomfortable? For example, like this. Or like this, or even this.* Last semester, I found the remedy to most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  're more than likely looking for. In addition to all of the comments, you ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... answering questions or to say things that are a little too private for the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to ... and her fur was scruffy and unkempt for the first time. she just wasn ... changed so fast. I hated myself for not playing with her more when I had the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  representation of what a career in software engineering will look like in the ... foundation for later fluency and understanding the role of ASL in Deaf history ... taken ASL 1 so the content might be repetitive/unhelpful CTV - Writing for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my ... back on the life he has lived I think has a natural fascination for all ... , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  many times as possible, building useless things for the Bad Ideas ... protein!!), Henry and I decided to use our powers for evil. We grabbed the ... juggling. (The reason it looks bad is because we dropped the egg into the pan

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting ... (which was a much more pleasant experience) I was ready for the next step ... eyelash. He was quiet for a couple of minutes, stared off at the wall, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the selection committee meets. The wearing of the tie symbolizes, for me, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the ... 's where all the flowers are. For size reference, this thing is over 6 feet

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT ... enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for ... , who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  their summer. Look at all that smog yum! They soon settled into the ... . After lounging around for a while, they piled back into the car but ... for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... . He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School ... identical copies of one nurse, and shut them again. The room spun for a while

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012