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• 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
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  around the desert, drinking up the sight of [annotation note="the tall ... the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... . Stuck in the confines of my house, the familiar tracks in my mind. I like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one ... after cup of tea, then suddenly it was the day of my presentation and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  A live DJ. 1000+ sparkly pompoms. One of the biggest events of the ... !) [annotation note="photos are the bane of my existence. i fear i may have to give up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of ... well capitalize on the opportunity. As it happens, I'm feeling sort of ... the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love

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

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... lot of intercollegiate events throughout the year that MIT students and ... of MIT and Wellesley students attending the cultural night. I really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... excerpts from the mit best of the blogs. [caption id="attachment_52458 ... room[/caption] you know how the feeling of having someone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA ... frustrated me to the point of tears. not a good sign!!11!1 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019