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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out ... following would have been a wonderous experience for both of us. It really is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... diversity." I have huge feet, as you know. One of my favorite childhood ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT, but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter ... through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues ... did not pick myself. Most of the story proceeds through a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... ). So if it helps, think about all the other EA applicants, thousands of them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and chock full of personality, there's also certain secrets and hidden gems ... week, I finished Season 2 of Gravity Falls. Right before my senior year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025