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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give ... you seen this pen? In addition to that, I also spent some time being ... caught up in my work I missed (just some lab stuff and a PSET to do) and I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , forcing the attentive student in lecture to sit up quite high, as well as ... faith in the higher-ups to choose the correct chair so I made sure to let ... MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends ... it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE ... ... Whoever writes a comment that makes me laugh the hardest will get the scrap

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  average. We may ask you to help advise creative projects in the office and ... pandemic disrupted, but here in Cambridge, vaccination rates are high, and so are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions ... hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is ... splits video), and the V4C folks wanted to know more about the creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  let you catch up to them. It sort of depends how invested you were in ... the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... cared to be lauded for a job well done in an endeavor that wasn't really mine. Though I took to the adventure of travel early in my life, watching

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  there is so much to be explored. Can we truly model that moth flitting in ... lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a ... presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... dinner included. Tonight we are in Destiny kitchen.   The MacBook is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  times closer to the black hole than previously thought; they see in better ... nice local laboratory to study the formation of and conditions in ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were ... one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging ... , designers, and models who won awards in this post. If you want to see more ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... in the mood to learn more, even if it meant pushing. Me: “Ok, fine ... I often feel inspired when I least expect to. When I do feel

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022