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  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  applications makes me extremely optimistic about the state of our schools. And ... Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa (bring your own mug and spoons, we provide the rest) for a few minutes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do laundry, change currency, buy travel books, and sleep. After a pizza lunch ... way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  outside and had said all my goodbyes and everything. You know how there's no ... near campus, and we talked about the past three years (after working ... school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition(FRC) Team 1710 ... Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  planned, by June, I will hold bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer ... people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor and then they approve your course selection to officially register you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  : especially 1) the state trooper at IHOP and 2) friends we ran into there). I ... ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  's transportation systems]   Or even in the United States, we can use data and ... of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation ... figurative (and for many literal) feet, not only for the quality of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  classes and exams offered, but I didn't have any idea where I was applying ... [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  situated at the midpoint between Boston University and MIT, and just as I ... Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking ... stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  , before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful ... -style Twitter bots, which actually do take source texts and produce randomly generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , from times I'd scrape my knee and then keep running, tearing the wound ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour, and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  offerings, activities, dining options, roommate matching and more. The Urban ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  . The bloggers are a diverse and multifaceted bunch, but there are thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... , and there's even an iphone app, which is super useful for tracking all ... snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... Anna's and bumping into Shamarah '12 in the Infinite Corridor, we arrived

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  's contact info, and make the call today! Now, what if you're applying for ... , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... respond. If you've given your EC reasonable time and haven't heard back, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... example, there were many fewer humanities courses, student activities, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004