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  Party pics

  

  work. I decided it was time for another "fun" entry. I mentioned in my previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our big annual parties, Reawakening. I also might have mentioned that the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... think I can confidently generalize that we all like a challenge. (Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... robot competition, and tomorrow I will take my first class in Toy Product

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... I’ve been in a bit of a post-application-season pre

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... year you can a) stay in your dorm, b) move dorms, c) move into frat ... 's just a Q&A session, which I'll skip, in favor of you all asking

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  't changed, though. I went to FredFest (a concert in the East Campus courtyard ... I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... that, because in real life we all want to be cool. Note also that I am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... squash, football, or chess - people who can play Set faster that I can deal ... to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... references to this come up again and again in wildly different places, and I ... education. I think after reading this, I saw selection bias more frequently in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... changed about MIT in the past four years - but many things haven't, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  been given an actual office in CAVS where we host "office hours" (open ... Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. As I mentioned ... giant paintings in giant frames, buying giant food, baking a giant cake

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  'm not sure what I can say in order to make you believe it more, other than ... for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It ... .0 is the way of the future. I can't even begin to talk about everything

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain ... .02 curriculum. I mean, isn't that why the class numbers end in the same 3 digits? In any case, I was pretty scared. Then the first week of classes came

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14.33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... graduated. i have no idea where, geographically, i'll be in two years (though

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  I wanted no part in. It wasn’t until I went to high school, where I ... in its foods, language, and people. And through all this, I can now say ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that when I got my admission letter in the mail, at first I was excited ... —  where I shared a [annotation note='I later learned the Class of ‘86 had ... decades afterward, once I started working in admissions - we all just

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should ... intention of this process. There is a big difference between "I can't afford ... schools and I can't afford MIT's application fee I need the new 160-gig i

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note="I ... highschool, I took a jazz ensemble class that ended up having only 6 kids in it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006