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• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  's literally no way to tell. About an hour in, the ogs had to leave, but a ... , resolved to get to square 256, which would be about 2.5 total hours of work ... , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  several hours because the crew assigned to my plane was stranded elsewhere ... My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I just had was to write something along these lines and send it to the CEO

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  hour. Ryan also taught some of us how to play Gatas, where you would run ... time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  'm headed to my last class of a day, an hour-and-a-half lecture ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste ... to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be okay. Repeat after me: It's okay to not be okay. There will always be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  extremely appreciative to be given such important and large positions and ... fucking admissions blogger. but, simultaneously, i think it's important to ... I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  I have something to say about MIT that I believe is important or gives ... The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should know that we will be looking to hire almost exclusively incoming freshmen to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  . It is also important to note that we do not need to have your scores in ... , buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted ... , for the pieces that come via snail mail, we have to open the envelopes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the ... the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... Wilczek. The event ran late, however, and some people had to leave early to go to review sessions for 2.006 exams or Dance Troupe rehearsals and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  There are two or three backlogged entries that I want/need to write ... know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my ... MIT, I'll dedicate this entry to describing them. I've italicized the

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

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The ... now here it is, as I found it at 3 AM Saturday morning, just 17 hours

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  to programs and take silly hour-long classes about fandoms or quantum ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  includes a text box for you to update us on anything important that has ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  each other's advice in the Facebook group. Moving on to more important ... living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004