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• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... override our other efforts to show you - in pretty much every way we can ... To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the people i've seen in real life i couldn't really get too close to. so ... 's because i felt that i've been left alone, out in the harsh world, to fend ... had me placing my trust in someone, only to have it broken in some way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded ... the one that was chosen. In sending that design to the class of 2012, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  community was quite closeknit in many aspects. I was just so glad to see that ... student'. Sad to leave but eager to come back to Boston in the fall! And ... had come to MIT CPW with excitement but also deeply rooted stereotypes

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep ... first world problems, and then getting someone who works at Media Lab to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people ... , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  ’t complete one cycle without getting distracted in between. Well, there was ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a ... ? (Carved by Andrew Hoy '10) Do you see what's in here? To no surprise

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... around You'll end up getting kicked outta Benzene town... Take it to the ... to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... —eternal gratitude to those who have believed in me and supported me even when life was ... sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  going to get the highlights (as defined by me) here. If you’d like ... your photo, and not get left behind. The piece is supposed to suggest ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... else does. Not every moment in life needs to be intellectualized, and I have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought ... Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... common app so they got the notification. She also got to me really far in ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  think it's important to let the people in your life know that you ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I ... 've been able to take in the beauty of Boston. Despite all the snow, it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... to see the world and take in the fresh air and ride that bike and surf

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005