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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  day. Rock. Also, note the appearance of George Mason University, Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  actually end it! Think of it as the universe guiding you along the messy ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... , nearly all of my friends had a duality of passions: Chemical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they ... works; sometimes, it's as simple as helping them clarify a matter of fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of ... art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020