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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... into a deep thought spiral. Then, sitting at the coffee counter, I start

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  well, do I? All of us at the debate. From left to right: Dwight, Chris ... campus issues in the tasks ahead of them. Throughout my time at MIT, I ... irregularities of the discipline system, or any other matter that concerned me at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  pictures. But some of our cruft are better at words and cameras than me, so ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... ="alignnone" width="768"] what if we gathered in vermont and stared directly at the sun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines. I missed dining hours this morning so I'm at Anna's Taqueria because I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Another post from Marilee A note from Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  "Whaaat? The letters were postmarked when?" by Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The decisions are in the mail They're on their way...

  

  The postman departs with the last of the decision letters, at 1:52pm EST.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  experience a lot of stress and snap at people you care about and wonder what in ... , i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... : aka Course 9, my new minor, because everyone should take at least one class ... own 31 different teas, mostly decaf. I also currently own 6 flavors of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

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

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night: 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the second floor of the student center. This exhibit was put together by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the ... EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever, elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  refreshing sense of anticipation and excitement. I took a look around at the ... years later. And to think that I now have 19 years of life to look back at ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3 ... You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009