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  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... ). So if it helps, think about all the other EA applicants, thousands of them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

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

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and chock full of personality, there's also certain secrets and hidden gems ... week, I finished Season 2 of Gravity Falls. Right before my senior year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more ... class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  I’ve been thinking about different modes of transport through cities ... . Each of those three have their own method of transport: Copenhagen bikes ... exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying ... liked having creative direction over choreography, but the thought of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be perfectly right, but it ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a Ke$ha phase

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013