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• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... , preparing for fall career fair, and you people? I’m only a human, after all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked ... around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... Twitter, Instagram, and tumblr, among others. You can think (as I do) of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  to make it look appealing. So I eventually settled for a 16 gallon ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I ... teacher's classroom), but I knew I wanted one in my dorm. After doing a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  of which I can't tell you about yet but which you'll see for yourselves ... -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... weeks. It's taking sort of list form because I'm a big fan of lists as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel like I learned a lot from him. We have talked about various things like ... event a reality. UROPs: I worked with Nate Quitoriano (my TA for 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to contact your interviewer is tomorrow (December 1). Check out my post from ... , compared with 22% who choose to have an interview. The reason for this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas ... , numbing eternity. I can't remember the last time I was so far away from the ... for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  can be a difficult decision to receive, but honestly, it works out okay ... in their college search. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  can be a difficult decision to receive, but honestly, it works out okay ... in their college search. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... with thumb tacks. I borrowed another box of thumb tacks from a neighbor ... like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  , October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that would be less terrifying ... that last minute work on your halloween costume, or...... I can tell you

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... from a pleasant distraction to a moderate disturbance, but to me, it was a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  (sometimes) funny. A few months ago I decided I wanted to make one for the ... gibberish machine which spouted pseudorandomly generated spam tweets from a ... _ebooks) July 25, 2012     As you might know, I am a full time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  - Orientation Program (Discover Ocean Engineering). I come from a place where ... It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... , the reason APs help your application, as far as I can tell, is because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap ... New York, New Jersey (a wonderful name for a fake city, by the way), the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  you have a closed curve, you can find the winding number for each point ... SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... website, you can see other people's comments, and write a comment yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023