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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... less when you're out there in it. because that's really all any of us can ... holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  great), i felt odd. while everyone was talking in the lobby of kresge auditorium, i took the stairs down and sat in one of the chairs in the corner ... friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is ... identity of the base pairs in it. Computers are our friends, but we can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... that I'm excited to see more of in my remaining half a year living here ... it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  cooperation between NGOs. Having just been to India, I can tell you that it ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population ... , Sneha ^.^), I can stalk NGOs instead =P Just kidding - mostly, it'll just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... it anyways. Many hold the mindset of “there is nothing else I can do to ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... freshman year. that person can only staple in groups of up to four people ... very lazy person in terms of meeting people—thanks to the pandemic—so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  * reading of a work in progress. *I choose the word 'devastating' because ... ." I spent a lot of time in the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Lab ... A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... the MIT crowd. Anyways, I can write a whole entry on french toast in ... already 6:08 and I had lost my spot in the class. So within 6 hours of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  way to go, although a lot of dancers I know who have trained in studios ... 've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  . gloria: I was in DesignPlus in my first year! It was the fall of 2022, the ... whim. However, I can say that was one of the best decisions I made as an ... -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  somewhere when I was young, in the half light or the cold blue of dawn ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... especially of the men of East Campus in scoring some Victoria's Secret MIT Pink

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many ... Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  were affected by yesterday's events, and I hope that we can come out of ... even sometimes sad being on the other side of CPW. I knew that it would ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  decision you were granted will define the rest of your life. If you got in, I ... craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my ... First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  it for the return of students, and I wanted to share it ahead of Labor ... I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  ’ve been trying to diversify my reading, in every sense of the word I can ... . in that I always used to be hungry for books, and I like the image of ... perusing books in the basement of Hayden library. I hope you enjoyed this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016