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  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... , with classes resuming, my average time leaving the lab was around 9 or 10

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on ... want to talk to us in the comments below, we’re here for you. We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some pictures and videos from one of the events. [annotation note="ive been ... !"]Project Manus,[/annotation] the easiest way into the MIT makersystem, hosted an

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  , but without the FPOPs and orientation. I felt angsty because I felt like we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration—if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent ... the same (and a quick glimpse at Twitter would prove that they

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my ... [annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... nourished by the university."]Aulus.[/annotation] (Me: "Mom, if you were my ... tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an awkward middle spot: life wasn't quite full enough to feel that the semester ... between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  highlight his legacy through our collective memories.   The official ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... prioritize and humanize people the way Professor Winston did. I took this

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the philosophy behind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... understanding MIT. So I fired up the old email client and sent the following email ... , and I am overseeing the projects. We are working with Upstatement, who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  itself), it felt foreign, nothing like walking through the familiarity of the infinite. Maybe it seems silly, but even grabbing something out of the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time ... green if the sun is up, ginger turmeric if not. i've been reading and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  to finish off the weekend. If you're a prefrosh, come by! If you're not a prefrosh, come by! The schedule can be found here. This is all ... :         *what is forkapple? the best game ever

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013