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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... ’s smoked barbecue brisket, or the smell of fresh mulch in spring. Some of my ... light up their stash of fireworks smuggled across the South Carolina

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... depth of the applicant pool – both in what students are doing inside ... college students comprise 14% of the admitted group, and 27% are members of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless it was also the last day of school) My summer last year was laid ... quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no ... of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester ... typically known for having a lot of budget dedicated to it. I chose the game

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunes of the All-Night Tool Just a little night music from me.

  

  a few of the top hits on my playlist right now. Some of these are old ... pretty good for helping me stay up. :) Enjoy! REM: King of Birds Stars ... [/embed] Dragonforce: Through the Fire and the Flames Mokoma: Takatalvi (Liz '11

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... one of my favorite forms of precipitation. Nothing beats the feeling of ... , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the ... LCC exists simply to promote and support all of the Latino organizations

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... )   Now the end of first semester was one of the most exciting and ... exhilarating. Let's look back at the two aspects of MIT and see how they applied

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia ... home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  of myself and do the things I enjoy. I'm realizing now that such a time ... ’m listening to music for the sake of listening to music, not just because I need ... staring out the window. But it’s kind of nice to just rest my brain? I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in ... the Berklee Performance Center, was a swirl of demographics all brought ... request of producer and musical director Shota Nakama, yelled the opening

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  can find a list of the topics that they made fun of (all in jest, of ... What happens when you pack hundreds of students armed with paper ... airplane. Then maybe two. Then sooner or later, people forego folding the

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their ... founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006