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• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Caine is a 9 year old boy from East LA. His dad, George, runs a used ... Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla.  He started playing Caine's games. Then he made a movie about him. Fair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  scratch ticket from a vending machine and one by one we scratched a number ... Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it's with a complete and total stranger. Most of these conversations consist

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  What sets MIT's East Campus apart from other dorms of the college ... live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  Fanta Girls, Grimmjow from the Bleach manga, a butterfly, that and more ... To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work ... burrow on my corner of campus, and really make this place a home away from ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... simple and nothing is ever easy. Ergo, cue term project. From: Professor ... message will self-destruct in a minute. Bye! So that was it and then we

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across ... involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... must have been someone after my own heart. A DUCT TAPE COW!!! Duct tape

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  a level from real-life Q-Bert, but actually a completely abstract ... ?) proved to be fateful, as it was in a glass jar, which prevented me from ... busy city square across from a Chinese restaurant, and I would definitely

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  , regardless of who else is applying from a particular school. Dressing like a ... with a 7-1 record [read more: MITAthletics] So, Summer got a 2300 on ... quoted in a recent Bloomberg News article on stress & college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  down at a conceptual level... I can do it if I switch from skate to skate ... opportunity for me to buy a new, ultra-trendy, well-engineered bowl from the ... threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get ... incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  ). Several minutes later, another half dozen or so folks from the Admissions Office followed, making for a fun Admissions Dance Party of sorts (which is just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT

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

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  , sometimes twenty or thirty or forty friends at a time. they return from the ... ends is one of accomplishment; it signals an emancipation from a ... the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  have a class that diverges so much from the typical work I do for my MIT ... I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  met Viva Coles from CA at a barbecue by Kriesge (hey did you know it's an 1/8th of a sphere?...) Now, I'm from Texas, so every time I heard ... a table which made a loud crashing noise and garnered looks from

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  may remember Matt '08 from Sweet Transvestite) for a little under a year ... .] So aside from a few magic moments, the weekend was a bust. The major ... from small towns, there's a certain warm-fuzzyness that comes with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  : Er. Just this. (slowly extracts a crinkled sheet of paper from his ... . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006