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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  hundred MIT students in the room was simultaneously struck with that exact ... , or characteristic. Some undergrads spent their years in high school ... television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great ... -listening hotline, for the score. Nightline's greatest service is in peer counseling ... phone call. The nice Nightline staffer reported that it was 4-2 Red Sox in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Fenway Park exit the stadium just in time to watch the lead runners come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  distended to suddenly hollowed out.  Eventually, my parents tucked me back in ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college ... -right. It’s a story about two people, in love but breaking up anyway. There

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  getting this far. In the meantime, hope you enjoy these silly spooky stories ... past week.  But say you’re psetting under the dome in the [annotation ... pset with friends in your dorm lounge or at Stud 5, but this week you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim ... student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on ... students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  The fourth in a series... With a week until the May 1st postmark ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the ... another country, and have a kind of stereotype about such products in US. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many ... semester, my lab partner decided to read that blog in front of me, to my mild

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my ... 's literally no way to tell. About an hour in, the ogs had to leave, but a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... ="105944" image6="105945" image7="105946" /] In the evening, a few of us practiced

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... scientific documents explaining my work.  This class always culminates in a ... event is held in Pappalardo Lab, where the sun shines brightly through the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... ’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... often in computer-science classes because there are so many people in them ... “dispenser” in quotation marks because the machines are So. Unbearably. Slow

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... played correctly you should feel like you’re moving in sync with the song ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... vagueness. There is some importance in reflecting upon and understanding which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do this semester, but in practice, it doesn't feel like it? i'm taking 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023