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  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday: ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still ... anything is better than year after year with the Pepto-Bismol Pink E-3 cards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  That's it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I'm officially a junior, halfway done with college, done with thermodynamics, and ... in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... descriptions I could. So, in a particular, but not chronological, order, here are ...   BBQ With Tireswinging A historic tradition in Senior Haus, we had

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... the first step on the road to recovery. My phone is a RAZR - not one ... batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  's his door in action: A couple notes from someone who has opened and ... visiting my room: "Your door is so ANALOG(UE)!" Chris wrote up a more ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  obscure occasions of note. Created by a leading young visionary in the ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  . This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the ... apply to graduate school. 2) is a class with my research advisor, and I've never taken one with him before. Plus, he's a great teacher. 3) is a CI

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  .) What follows is a blog post Lauren wrote last month about one of her ... is an air museum in eastern New York that restores and displays Golden ... dogfighters and barnstormers…and for two weekends in October, they host a Fall

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else ... faeces in the house, in the house, and this is the rule not the exception ... stress.   And there is also a fourth degree, but, well, there's no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  YEAH! Frame one: Like I said, CHESS IS INTENSE. (As a side note, learning how to play chess is still on the to-list, along with learning how ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and what blind spots might be embedded in my studies as a math and ... and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being ... of kinship: yes, Wang is the most common surname in the world, but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  yapping from me! The rest of this post is all Andre's words.  I gave a ... , Theta Chi, during the pandemic, and now I was living in a house I hadn ... to scare you all, but I say this to help you recognize this is a time

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that ... this week, but for now, here is a photo of us having an ice cream reunion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by ... studying abroad in a foreign city. Things move at a different pace, with a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... semisweet chocolate and tossed it into her chocolate cookie recipe. I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006