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• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  ="aligncenter" width="250"] the Charles somewhere west of Harvard: the inaugural photo ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of-the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now ... here. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already ... , and go crush the rest of your college applications this cycle. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don ... for their rant.) This is also true of food; I like to eat the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... all!) fully enjoying the anonymity of the Internet as I subtly brainwash

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... of dedicated letter of sorts to the prefrosh since I've had a lot of ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... make up organic feed and sparge 55 liters of water and turn on the ... five years, Brian explored the molecular modeling of gas hydrates, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  , imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head ... just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... . Sometimes, I wish I could get rid of the voice. That it didn’t just linger in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing ... weekend, the rest of my schedule has been covered by a lot of the other

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an ... 's actually just one of the many, many completely amazing professors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel@MIT chose the latter option, and they were awarded the grand prize of $25

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... sweet stuff. Some of the stuff I've received for free include:A fridge A

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now ... deferred students on Saturday. Because of the competitiveness of our pool ... deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  one of every ten applicants. Because of the size and the strength of ... : decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you ... in. As has become tradition, the MIT admissions decisions are being

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  building a career out of her true passions, even though the road hasn’t been ... producing stuff for social media—and “stuff” is all kinds of stuff. The first portion of the class focused on projecting an image out into the Internet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022