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  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate ... .") Their wedding took place in Bellevue last Saturday, and was a bittersweet reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  film is primarily a love story, but there are major themes of justice and ... about a student's essay I had read the day before about the India ... the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  exam by working through a practice exam for that class. Usually it's from ... [annotation note="I didn't have any <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href='https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/finals-away-from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. These 1,299 students hail from all 50 states, 58 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools. Though their interests and ... , birding and ballet — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  collectively climb the mountain that is MIT. These 1,324 students hail from all 50 states, 62 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools ... , quantum and quilting, agriculture and archery — they are united by a shared

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. They hail from all 50 states, 58 countries, and nearly a thousand ... orienteering — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media ... autonomously with each other. Pretty freaking cool! I struggled a lot with the ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  you from the pain that accompanies being a human being, whether that ... a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had ... friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel ... faces. A gaming UROP hosted by the MIT Game Lab where we're creating a ... the year so I really hope I don't screw it up. Aside from these things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  somewhere after finishing a difficult assignment, and then suddenly it's 6 am ... uncomfortable as you reevaluate your perspectives on a plethora of social issues ... you're equipped with the insight/perspectives of friends from previous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... consulting with many others (as well as compiling from some earlier blog posts ... clunkiness to your username. Say your username out loud a few times to check

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed ... realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There's homework, lab ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm ... ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  days (NOT!), two of my suitemates Molly and Evie sent out a floor email about starting a team for getfit@mit, a 12-week fitness challenge for the ... , getfit@mit encourages MIT to exercise regularly, dangling a grand prize and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  form, you can get a PDF from the tracking system. If you had an interview ... . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing Requirements (we should have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  Hi folks, Jess sent me an email a few days ago making fun of me for being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I ... will be mailed via postal mail a few days later, most likely on Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  felt a sense of accomplishment like never before, and I knew I was ready ... human genome, teaches Biology; a the beloved Don Sadoway teaching Chemistry. Take a look at this picture that MIT's student newspaper, The Tech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007