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  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  early. If you're reading this, what are you waiting for? In other news, I ... action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My ... one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the ... your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a ... important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  what wish I would make if I had a genie. What immediately came to mind ... ’re learning piano. You’re struggling a little bit. Here, let me teach you what I ... the half marathon? Maybe because I have never run in a real race ever

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  tickets worked. "I remember telling myself that the Ontario Lottery is a multibillion-dollar-a-year business," he says. "They must know what they're doing ... make if this was my full-time job, I got a lot less excited," Srivastava

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  , here I am. Blogging for the first time in three years. A lot has changed ... I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... graduated now-ish/a semester before I (hopefully) will) and Geronimo M. ‘17 ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  * faster than I am, and *very* patient. Reading: In the half hour before I ... I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming ... air and remembers that I'm actually enrolled as a full-time student at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  that many people, and I spent a lot of my time that semester in one place ... Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  , but in a way they could understand what you were thinking through ... of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long ... railed. Orthodoxy runs deep. Last year I was traveling with a colleague

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand ... students at CPW check-in with a matching water bottle.[/caption] [caption id ... place. With the move from in-person to online, I introduced a Limited

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... you a Paula Abdul song if my life depended on it. I hang my head in ... : In my high school years, I never really met a lot of people outside of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  this moment about what my aspiration is in life, I would tell you ...  instructors." I had my first session of this class today, and in describing what we ... totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  registered for MyMIT and live in the US, you should receive your application by ... people apply these days -- it should be online in early August ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  things to do in three and a half days of little sleep. I would love to ... though I hadn’t committed yet. I saw myself in a club (that I later joined ... try out for an a capella group. I looked forward to living in East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging ... excellent applicants to bring together a class. I know I speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a very difficult admissions

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... summer to get to and from his job in Providence. I've used it to go to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  , filling them with a determination and vigor I've never quite seen before ... stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I ... 's finally in my grasp, like I finally understand what makes me tick, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  . It’s a snow angel! Like in the movies! I’d only ever seen snow angels ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo

  

  back in the fall of my first year was intended to be a Mario movie watch ... This is a follow up to my first Tetris on the Green Building blog ... Green Building displays!! Check it out here: https

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 15, 2026