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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  was that I couldn't tell time for about a week, because my phone usually ... . For some reason it uses a different service than phones do now, so it is ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front ... exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a ... -question-asking-young-man, but if you do, I hope this helps clarify things a bit. Next up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  of moving in, and I could only feel a conviction that what I was doing ... hallway that I was once pushed down in a laundry cart, or the beautiful ... feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... building full of friendly people your age). I also had a chance to do lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  year (IT'S MY SENIOR YEAR) and I realize that I still don't have a ... three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... actually do form a coherent unit. Concentration Advisor: "I'll be back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few easy steps: ...I can't tell if crush.mit.edu is a self-mocking parody ... mentioned a few posts ago that I was taking pistol class for PE - and that our

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  friends are in a band at MIT that is affectionately known as Love and a ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my ... ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  is that there are laptops everywhere! Proof? I love having a laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor ... . Everybody here I know that has one is a Mac fanboy and also uses another

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then ... 's quote "there is a vitality, a life force." I love this quote a lot and ... ) In 'Time is a Mother,' poet Ocean Vuong reflects on life, and time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  , which guaranteed that I would play someone who was unable to score in ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin ... judging gets tough. In the first game of the round of 64, I knew that my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... , neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... meaning perfectly. Do not separate a subject and its verb. An exception is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  that is no longer accessible. When I think of this place in space and ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I ... Women in Aerospace Engineering (WAE). WAE is a student group that, through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  , she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in ... in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M.I ... that she might have a future in science when she began building robots

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  've waited 30 minutes for a quesadilla that they ended up putting chicken in (I ... [annotation note="I'm also aware that administration is actively trying to ... feeling sad? Was there any effort in the decor/design? With that, I present

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  , which is honestly crazy. I'm not a calorie counter at all but these cones ... up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... tolerance does fall on the higher end so take that with a grain of salt. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... replies throughout this week. I assure you, we have a space in the class for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  new perspective. The first thing I discovered is that the T is just a ... currently is, and I'm not totally sure how I feel about that yet. BUT WAIT ... area. In 2022 I attended CPW and live-streamed a marathon cross stitch

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025