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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there ... Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  various rearrangements of the Institute furniture and our heavy, multiple ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , right? Rumors and ‘leaks’ had been circulating all morning. We knew that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... 'm hoping the rest of my (and your) senior year pans out like that.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I ... .01 and 6.042 (both intro classes to course 6-3 that I absolutely despised ... that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on ... go down this route! We've been there (way too many times), and it just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire each other ... , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... , this is a physics problem. And when there's an important physics problem ... disposal"), MIT researcher Jocelyn Monroe, and his daughter. My favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... , address, and other factors that affect admissions, like whether they ... , it is much worse than unhelpful. It, and tools like it, actively harm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  US Army and the Massachusetts State Police and now runs his own private ... editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... kitchen--sink, cabinets, two refrigerators, stove, and oven. No lugging a ... burrito, or that you shouldn't put pita chips in the oven and then forget

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your application, stressing and laboring over tiny details. If you’re like me, you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018