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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... my [granted, pretty sharp] 10-year-old brother to understand this, even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... ata gustong manalo Wala na ’to Pareho lang tayong malabo i’ve been ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat, from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020