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  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  grade, and I was Captain of my high school varsity team.)  I am heavily ... was preparing to be out of the country for a month and was too busy to ... the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... love and commitment. here are some of them. sometimes for me, this spring and summer were full of striking moments when i made big

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best ... learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  head off to a team meeting. Come to think of it, I've been so busy this ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  as they say in the newspaper business: we have put the Early Action ... of 1300 GMT the decisions were at Boston's South Station (the main post ... those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went ... lot of free food (ice cream, hummus, coffee, cannolis, etc.), free stuff (water bottles, tons of t-shirts, posters, CDs, etc.), free manicures, free

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  juncture rather than grad school. And thanks to all of the tangible progress ... , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... of soup), social life, free food hunts, and a dumpsterload of potential extracurriculars are playing tug-of-war with your attentions, it's sometimes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  there’s no hope for employment. The value of your high school experiences ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... the parts of you that are not busy with eigenvalues and electron ... . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  school acceptances. He wrote me letters of recommendation for nearly all of my grad school and fellowship applications (which is a tale of ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... @MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... started exploding into a bunch of craziness and hoohah) that I had no ... bunch of music that I've been listening to this summer." Thus, I had to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes Scholar. This year's list of winners includes not one but two awesome MIT ... biographies of Alia and Matt from RhodesScholar.org (links mine), followed by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... 's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on. As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019