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  International Selection Day 1

  

  international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to ... ) Executive Committee. ISA is a terrific support network for our international ... . Tomorrow is a new day, and a new tie. I'm very much looking forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... , though, it could serve as a powerful tool in the fight against every global ... .org as a registered user. – Click on the "Ideas" icon in the top

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of ... programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration." Don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... actually could sleep in… sleep is wonderful), we were still very, very busy ... here is a picture of us and our grandma doing our massive amount of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  . Today, my world is bigger. I live in a different apartment now (still in ... . Such a task is both an immense honor and a weighty responsibility. While ... pleasure. After spending all day consuming what is (mostly) non-fiction in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  bad living right in the heart of Kenmore across from a frozen yogurt ... summer is really living within 100 feet of a frozen yogurt shop. And ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  deeply, and I don't think that is a rare sentiment. In fact, I'm starting ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... my time at MIT in general. A few months back, I checked into a hotel

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  writing a lot: about current debates in media, about wireless mesh networks ...         i've been spending a lot of time away from mit. i've been going to lincoln laboratory in lexington once or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  , Chip Quinn, is nuts. In a good way. It's like, somebody threw my General Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... quantitative than you'd think (in general, neuroscience is more quantitative than

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions ... you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  write a more thorough entry soon, after some sleep. Hang in there - only ... proud of the class we've admitted. The predominant feeling, however, is sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the ... organizers Neera '06 and Janet '06 with volunteer Kriti '07 Women meet in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  there is not a lot of hassle with filling out timecards. All of this ... , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in ... Apollo Landings, the role of the human and automated systems in a new lunar

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate Association Committee on Student Life is proud to present MIT's second ... can't really read it, but the white banner in this picture is for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

   Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... other than that it is very much an experience more than it is a show ... game of cornhole. "What," you might ask, "in the world is cornhole?" As

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... much as you may think they do.[/annotation]In a strangely comforting way

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024