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  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... hosted a luncheon for the cadets where we heard an incredible war story ... as FIESTACON and is sure to be every bit as fun and productive and a

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  to the rescue. You see, this summer, my sister threw her phone off a roller coaster. (Where by "she threw it off a roller coaster" I mean "it ... first one is funner to say. (Funner. It is a word. (Also, nested

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  ’d pulled of a miracle and gotten myself to a point where I only needed to get ... friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically ... : Intro to Acting Dropped before COVID Grade: N/A    6

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  noted. Earlier today, I had a chance to (briefly) visit the kind folks in ... A press release yesterday from MIT announced costs & financial aid ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  , Where The Red Fern Grows, Ender's Game, To Kill A Mockingbird, Blindness ... 've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... energy and passion. Favorite movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, American Beauty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Boring Friday what did you do last friday?

  

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  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... : well, the point i wanted to make was that the planning was a coping ... years old didn't have such a dismal reason to live. cj: well. a month

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . . . with a letter" [she takes this opportunity to read the letter very ... stamped a red star onto our registration sheet. SCORE! We went to the next ... SO overwhelming, you have no idea! It took us a little bit to figure

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to ... Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness ... went to a cafe, where I am now. I read some Infinite Jest and ate ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note="please be nice to them ... 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping ... ending and i have an apartment to fill" "i have a suitcase to pack" "and i ... I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  ://jspaint.app/"]Microsoft Paint,[/annotation] to jumping off the swings! Being a beginner isn ... our successes, we forget what it feels like to be a beginner. Suddenly ... , audition, or competition where you feel overwhelmingly clueless is a huge

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  not be done, because you are too afraid to let a tradesperson see your ... reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course ... would motivate me to put it away so that I would have, you know, a floor

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

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science ... ? Domestic selection (final stages). It's been a long season of Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to ... sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... experience leads to a smaller proportion of the time it took to gain that ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  consistently spend money to study at a coffee shop when I feel less guilty if I ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound realization recently that I think I'm boring. I'm not entirely sure where I sit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025