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  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... , gimme an A, gimme an S...' cheer," which is a personal favorite of mine

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this ... an admissions committee, we desire diversity of all sorts, we don't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... reasonable, and he genuinely cares about his students and the culture at MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we ... making stone-cold mistakes about all of them. we’re still growing up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Important Well, at least I think so.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student Center, and marveled at the Great Dome while standing in Killian ... most generous of "chance me" scorers would only give me a 50% chance of ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  * * * ME: [walking somewhere at night] GROUP OF FROSH: [whispering] ME ... and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... 't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  back at these 10 years, several lessons stand out to me. Some of them, I ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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 “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a ... particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... variants - and countless others - are all just versions of the same question

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and you'll see home:     Fun fact: all of the photos in ... 'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir

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

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019