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• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some ... blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a ... losing to Alabama, Tebow played the best game of his life in the Sugar Bowl

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... everything... - and then it gets baked in the oven! (Mine's the one in the ... , installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  high school days--not because I wanted to be in high school again, but ... school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas ... for you to drink. There are men in top hats playing carols on trombones

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more ... posting. i just needed to get these thoughts in writing. maybe i'll actually ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... them looked something like this. In the week or so leading up to the ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  explain and sort of requires knowledge of the entire in-game universe to ... "]deluxe version[/annotation] of the game in June, and was expecting it to physically be shipped to me in time for me to play. But since coronavirus has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... group, I made new friends. In mid-November, I finally managed to finish my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these plans, only to build loftier ones in their place. As we reminisced over

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a ... boy to ever confess his interest in me. We had a lot in common, I ... own that he could participate in. And it hadn’t occurred to his

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , then read it again. Kirstyn sat out in the hall, on her laptop. To get to ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013