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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "First, I recognize there is a major difference between people I would want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  to see if I would like who I become if I stop putting in the effort to ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what I expected - I guess I didn't really think about how bad it would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... 've gone too far. Whoever wrote MIT's graphic identity rules would writhe in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  in this picture too but I couldn't find anyone passing by who would lay ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... summer, I would highly suggest watching Dance 360, America's hottest dance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... supplemental portfolio, but you do not need to; I would only consider this if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... the lobby, I told people that the score was 6-0 (true) in favor of the ... wondered if people would reconsider my credibility about everything else I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... . In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was in high school... although objectively I suppose there was nowhere to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my ... roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to ... I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college ... eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and ... of: Back to MIT I headed, stopping in Lobby Seven so I could point

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... , but in Italy? That would NEVER happen." I came to Japan to immerse ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  — where i would be right now in my life/my career/my education would be ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a ... assignment was to bring in photos and talk about why we liked/disliked them. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  I know... ...Mother Nature would actually oblige. The next day, it ... Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... Assumption 3. Notable events in chronological order Winnie and I ... basil plant, so I bought another one to prove that I am, in fact, capable

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022