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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  crossing, whose tropical island setting and cute characters and mindless activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... room last night and got 0.27 Mbps download speed and nearly broke down

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... morning starts with 9.26 Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are ... desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... and 75 units last semester and as a result spent April and May in a ... other MIT students and see more almost every weekend, there are some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  With Hurricane Wilma bearing down on Florida, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our minds, and the early action deadline about a week away, I figure this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  IT’S SNOWING a bit of whimsy during finals week

  

  "] stata center (center) and building 68 (right)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_120946" align="aligncenter" width="300"] charles river and boston skyline ... ="attachment_120941" align="aligncenter" width="300"] stata center (foreground) and

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 14, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of ... sick and the world changed. this, and many things, and other reasons that i find harder to talk about, have changed me and my relationship to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... it's raining and thin if it isn't, and blocks are also colored

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately, we can’t admit everyone. If your decision was ... without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present ... , here, here, and most recently here and here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and ...  [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note="please be nice to them ... wait. You can watch Ellen and me fly around campus trying to avoid robots

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  The admissions process develops seasonally and repeats cyclically ... , the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially because when it does, it breaks over us, and our office is deluged with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  This past weekend I was somewhere between flying and drowning. Finals ... and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a ... break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  POLYMERS and CATS." Really. All I want to do is have my cat (and maybe another one or two... and a dog and a hamster...), work with polymers, and ... different industries and disciplines. But that's not it. Life is hard. You

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  . Life has been... interesting the last few months and I'll blog about ... treasures at and around MIT and puts them in the limelight. The first hidden ... and their cousin knows about the pistol classes and the Pirate's License

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... want, which in most cases involves your favorite t-shirt and jeans, and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Every Monday and Wednesday night, you could probably find me in ... analogies, and are certainly not limited to expressions such as “Release your inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  , but then my flight got canceled, leaving me frustrated and with an ... -provided hotel room and saw a beautiful queen size bed. I curled up and (1) watched Finding Nemo, and (2) started reading Hunger Games. At some point, I fell

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011