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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... University  Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public ... , iPad, or laptop Watch the sun set and rise from the Green Building

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox ... opportunity to live and work with gifted students as they took classes through the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. These 1,299 students hail from all 50 states, 58 countries, and ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. They hail from all 50 states, 58 countries, and nearly a thousand ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those pictures. On the day where we think about the Doctor, me and some friends ... stores and cool things over there. We rode the bus across town and it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  is MIT. They represent all 50 states, 67 countries, and nearly 1 ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... to decisions.mit.edu. Between Early and Regular Action, 21

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here ... internship, and I must say it's been quite an adventure. I've settled into a schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... 1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is ... a foldable easel and a bag of paintbrushes slung over his shoulder

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  burning out were a universal Mocha exec experience, and part of the argument ... seven hours with Kinematix and 1-2 with Mocha, so I'm dancing more than I ... -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  spring. The temperatures keep dropping twenty degrees every two weeks, and ... Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to ... sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the ... need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  although three of my five classes this term are recommended and required for a Course 20 degree, only one of them is, strictly speaking, Course 20 ... highly interdisciplinary field, especially here at MIT; and it is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  shots in minus-eighty temperatures and 100 degree winds is beyond me, but ... morning, leapt out of bed, turned off my alarm, and then awoke again. This ... at 10 AM on Saturday morning. Unlike my usual Tuesday and Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays ... coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and ... acceptable. Here at MIT, I learn the mysterious words and ways of computers

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  something hilarious and universal about the way parents who didn't speak ... large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this afternoon, and saw ... couple friends and I conveniently watched this summer out of boredom

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Chinese and international universities. Our conversation seems to suggest ... Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades ... ’s see – 3 F’s and 2 C’s? What!!! Second-semester can’t be like this! Okay

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• 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 ... over our footsteps and shouting in an otherwise silent and uneventful night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009