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• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... thought I would be. Don't get me wrong; it lived up to every bit of its ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  'm just not in any condition to compose a proper blog entry today. And ... Hello out there in TV Land. I'm Sam Maurer. You might remember me ... Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... one of my trips back to see friends in the Boston area. It was one of ... . I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  advantages of learning, who had the means to go to college in an era before ... parents (or aunt, or grandfather, or third cousin) went to MIT. In fact, one ... it is going to help them get into MIT. So where did this idea come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  every time somebody rings the intercom to get in the main entrance. The ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange ... midway to check out Alicia '06 performing in the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  grades may take longer to process in some school systems this may take ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to ... , Carolina, and my adventure getting to Death and the Powers. (Created with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... frowned upon to willingly do work outside of work? i get why it's bad if you ... sees me replying to a message after hours, she tells me to get off slack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  the flavors in the vaccination cocktail.)   Not to scale.   ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  away in the back; he very wearily said no. Maybe he gets that question a ... conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... room in half. To my right: my desk, and my rolly chair, which has MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... never really fully get to know. Because while small talk and conversations ... , not in anticipation of a meaningful answer. More so, we’re inclined to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing ... learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your ... " in the admissions office during normal business hours, to a) help new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm ... just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to ... . How do I get to know people? How do I find community on campus? For me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021