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• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  opportunities, or something completely random, I was always writing with you - the ... last barrier between me and knowing whether or not I might be going to ... find out whether or not certain friends of mine - from across the nation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  filled with jugglers and their inquisitive onlookers. it’s getting dark, or ... ] lecture or read some linguistics papers as the kitchen saturates with the ... "]housecomm[/annotation] meeting or quantum mechanics questions; i read and read, in my room and in a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places ... resident who doesn't have a final the next day makes a pasta dish (or another ... those people who want a snack during their final or who didn't get a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Lobby 10 this morning/afternoon for Splash 2011!! From 1st floor ... never even considered or known to exist! If you're in high school and feel like you could be learning more, or are particularly interested in

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  insincere or trite, I hesitate to use these tired cliches, but there's nothing ... believe it, or you can take it from me and believe that the admissions ... things into consideration when crafting this next video: 1. The pi video

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true. Believe it or not, MIT has ... No. 1" by Sofia Gubaidulina "Am I Evil?" by Metallica "Children of the ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  wouldn't be here. In that regard, nerdiness (or geekiness, or love of knowledge, or whatever you want to call it) is one of the great unifying ... some select pieces of evidence. Exhibit #1: 1024. (Think about it. Now

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a ... about them! Use the optional essay (Question 13: "show us and/or tell us about something you have created") or attach supplemental materials (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due ... received his or her tube. So if you haven't received anything yet, it does not mean automatic deferral or rejection. Applicants from the same

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  Hacking Organization, and/or no group at all. Picture 1: Location ... playoffs or last World Series, I forget Group: Presumably people from Mac ... Preview Weekend 2003 Group: Either WHO or cross-group, I'm not sure So yeah

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  Summer Motto #456-1A: Rock the free stuff, always. So following ... : Red/Green or Red/Blue Although the red/green or red/blue system is now ... and the other in blue (or green). The filters on the glasses allow only

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  morning. The weak will not survive here. But my class will help you ... to cushion your grade, while a typical a freshman class will have 3 ... Physics C - but at MIT at least, even you will experience a time when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  projected onto the wall. [carousel image1="112075" image2 ... items that I unfortunately had to leave at home.) [carousel image1 ... lottery as one or two people, although I didn't have the time to ask

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium ... . All organizations - profit or nonprofit, private or public - require human capital to produce their goods or spread their message. We're all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the ... 's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... easily frustrated by lack of progress, or by people who seem more content

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  these photos will help. All photos graciously provided courtesy of Ternus ... the Biology Building, the Koch Institute will officially be numbered ... exposures of Massachusetts Avenue blended into HDR, with the W1XM antennas in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... work well in practice, using things like cache locality or parallel ... .5120 [6.822] formal reasoning about programs) or implementation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative ... posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do

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

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female ... of inspiring science teachers, I also had one or two who wondered aloud ... button the guy way. I've never had my intelligence questioned or my opinion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  college (MIT or otherwise): Be yourself: Students spend so much time trying ... path: There really is no one perfect school for anyone! You will probably ... be prepared to spend four years there as it may be where you will go

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014