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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  hear is slightly different. They don’t have to worry about getting sick ... returners, “You may get addicted to going on leave.” He explains: the world ... tell them this: 7. “It’s hard enough to get into MIT once – you got in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  so many conversations with so many people to get me here, but I am here ... was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... get back to campus. 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 25 mins https://www

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight ... advice to my sisters. I am a girl, which I think is pretty cool. I get ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I ... highly value my emotional connections with others and struggle to get used

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016