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• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... "]Felix.[/annotation] The next idea came from a student who drew an image of herself ... it -Emily"]class of 2024.[/annotation] And, just like the previous two

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  . After exploring the Minuteman trail (including a statue of Uncle Sam; did ... around the entire campus, instead of staying on (or even in sight of!) the ... existing Quidditch teams and their snitches. Some of the snitches will do

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... my feelings of self-doubt and attitude towards the “real world”. So ... here’s the (very long winded) beginning of my college experience, through

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... right around the corner but always out of grasp. I was bound by ... the beauty of the things you are graced with in your friendships

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of ... , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam ... small changes in my choice of classes, rearranging the order in which I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... , and the glasses cause one of the images to enter one eye and the other ... screen, each with a different polarization. The glasses allow only one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  , a New Years blog, a blog from the beginning of junior fall where I complained about everyone being way too scared of junior fall, a blog from the ... of my freshman year. The prompt was to write for ten minutes about MIT

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its ... looking at this. The fact that we even made this. The word choice of “FOOL

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour ... students give presentations on their research and the chair of the admissions

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of ... 't know the location of - grabbed a cab. The cab cost 710 yen (~$7), but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of ... the attachment solidified as years of romanticization played out over my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the ... time, for each of the last several years while I was away from MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... faculty, staff and alumni in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... really. So the moral of the story is: COME VISIT. Discover the various ... A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More ... of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not finish this early, but GAH! (the second time this semester, fourth time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  (UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... the organization of firms, inspired by his work straight out of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006