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  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really didn't know. I don't hide things from you; I never have and I never will

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  available men. Factoring in the percentage of the student body that you ... doesn’t suck for everyone, I commend all of you who can successfully ... all gay people are openly gay in the way you might hope. Apparently

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... in real life. "I love your car," I told her, "I'm very jealous." "You should get one!" she returned "I can't afford that car." "You can afford

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  trait. Regardless, I can guarantee you that if you see me on campus, at ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... collecting cards, watching Ash Ketchum continually lose in big tournaments, and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  blogging - where you can write whatever you want, however you want. No ... committee knows you are applying to their MFA program because everyone in the ... "locked" in a room with 500 applications. Do you think this opening

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  life. Seriously, you can't imagine the amount of material they expect you ... you go here). Today some grades were published. I got A's in Digital ... ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  . What can I say about selection in general? Not much, really. The applications are incredibly good. You are all amazing. But hopefully you already ... 'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  the energy drinks. As you can see, I'm slightly confused by the whole ... COOP. On the T we noticed an interesting flaw in a Harvard based ad. Can ... Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  was there. In Lobby 7, there usually are MIT keychains you can pick up ... sketches of random things. You can think of it as a warm-up for drawing. For ... hair. In my room, I set up LED light strips that I bought online. They

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  stairs. It was beautiful in a way that I can’t really explain. Anyway, I ... There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  counted the days to graduation. Whereupon, in May 2009, I immediately ... 's important - unavoiadable, really - that you include them in your decision ... meaningfulness of finding your match. Maybe MIT is a match for you. In case it isn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... the dungeon and fight the final boss in his airship. Then, the credits would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  am in the middle of nowhere?). I'll be sending you some processed ... Love At Work (LAW) missions camp. The camp, founded in 1993 by Killearn United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, began as an effort to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  with the schedule of speakers and topics. You can sign up for the course ... Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... the snipers: As you can no doubt tell, I was a little hyper by this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  like any other student, MIT students can struggle in physics classes too ... and that's immediately obvious and you can see that with personal ... brain into something that can help people, especially in the places where

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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  • by Piper '13
  • January 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do ... fast as we can, do you think we will make it" - running, no doubt I used ... everything you ever wanted, in one moment. would you capture it, or just let it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... [annotation note="(0:50-1:13): Guess what? You got more than you bargained. Ain't it ... feels true. (1:13-1:45): "You've been on my mind, \\ Though it may seem I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024