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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger ... common during my undergraduate days and they were shocked. Yes, if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  Hello, dear RA applicants! It's almost winter break and you are ... . We understand and want this process to be as painless as possible ... and continue through the entire document and resubmit. We find this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose culture and residents feel like the best fit for you. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  2015 has had its ups and downs for pretty much everyone on planet ... past year went well, what didn't go well, and what I could've done better ... sliver of the voices at MIT, and yet we capture many of the experiences

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  ; < <  You can log in using the same username and password ... MIT Class of 2019. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have ... admitted Class of 2019 includes makers and marksmen, eidetics and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... . Nevermind the why and wherefore: let's roll back the clock to April 2011, when ... had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was ... and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and-chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear ... get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, it's been announced with more and more fanfare every year. This ... pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow ... cameras were grainy, the sun kept moving behind clouds, and we had no idea

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie ... working in Solidworks (a program used for modeling on the computer) and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  One week ago, an eclectic group of ambitious young men and women flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make...something. The hacking arena. The ingredients: ideas, sleeplessness, Red Bull, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you'll crush the server. And Labs will get fired. :-(   Ok, here

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... incredibly difficult. And by "incredibly difficult", I mean "incredibly ... . At times, you've driven me up the wall, literally. And I couldn't be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other ... opposed to faxed or sent via Docufide/Naviance), and especially mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  stuff? (Or, "OMG I sent my stuff before the deadline and it's not ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline ... . If the tracking system isn't showing a document yet, relax and wait

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters ... friends are in a band at MIT that is affectionately known as Love and a ... Products, the Logarhythms, and (my favorites) the Chorallaries.  

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff ... 's ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, rock band, dance parties, and more ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  cooking our own food, if we so choose. Many people embrace the kitchens and ... and I are the only two who don't even really own dishes, we just use ... "pretends" to cook. Sara's menu consists of two items, soup and cereal, both

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009