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  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... that night and I blogged about it in an anticlimactic manner a few days

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Seriously, should I be worried? All of a sudden a masked man with a huge ... March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if ... . While I'm not a prefrosh, I do enjoy a good pillow fight every now and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  was in a tremendous amount of pain. So I got the boot. And I healed after a long time in the boot. I tried running again the next year, but I ... , and I went to sleep. However, a pulsing pain in both of my feet kept me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  a freshman. I was also wondering what sporting activities are really ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  before realizing a) what had happened and b) the gravity of it. Turns out ... without Winnie the bloggers would be wandering around in a confused daze ... my web space. I CTR+A'd inside my admissions blog folder and then

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  ’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching the LSC intro before Jojo Rabbit gave me the urge to become a ... new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... my inbox, a moment buried four months in the past: hi, what classes ... cambridge’s godforsaken sad clouds. i sit down in a lounge on my floor. i

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  end of the week. When I was in high school, I almost started a webcomic ... drawing already helped me out in a neat little way, and I’m not the only one ... seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  at MIT. While I'm at it, parents, you should take a bow as well. You ... and see MIT in all of its glory. We finished off the evening with what I ... As Sam Cooke once said, "It's been a long time coming but I know a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me ... Harrisburg, we stopped at a gas station and I just had to check out some ... background as when I got home. Do you know who's in the picture? It was a hit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Doable in a week, even. Little did I know that it would take over a month ... wanted to. I was invited to live in Hawaii with a few friends, and I know ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned ... that I go here. Not even in a "I belong here!" sense, but that I am a) no ... drinking a lot of caffeine. I'm majoring in course 20 (bioengineering) 89

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what ... streets; turn the corner and what was once a house lies in shambles. It ... make sense of all of this in just one short week. This is what I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball under my workbench in lab and fell asleep for a couple of hours. When I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  MIT tracking system. What should I do? A: Log in to your MyMIT account and click ... , what happens? Should I unrank MIT or withdraw my application? A: If your ... ? I've started the MIT application, should I finish it? A: No

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30 ... doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in ... miles in 8 months. How do you do that? RUN A F***ING LOT. No joke, I was

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

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  'm so exhausted. tomorrow, when i check in with my therapist, what ... overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... off half a tablet, i can just put the other half back in the container

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... class. As I've written before, our overall admit rate this year will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005