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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... accepted to the MIT biology grad program. Just today, I was talking with a ... in the 70s, so we proceeded to have a lovely chat about MIT housing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because ... to my baby. Usually, by 5 pm, there's a loaf on the table and that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  have you work independently, then explain your work to a TA or LA (lab ... actually over a little to the right, so it's moved in the other images. shhh ... committee, UA innovation, spearheaded a student lounge with places to work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party ... plenty of reason to come back to Boston to celebrate. A normal Patriot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  began. Each presentation had to last a maximum of eight minutes, followed ... repeatedly. A small experiment asking the audience to shift gazes between their ... -giving earphones? Nah.) A possible solution to this: MIRA, a high-tech helmet

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with ... occasionally those people will like your tweets and amplify them to a larger audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious ... time to enjoy everything. A couple of my friends and I got to go apple

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the ... blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to ... , Obama was the only one to have a public rally in Boston. I think I shall ... to the USA, then there was a Q-and-A session. She mentioned that what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... , Darwin’s, where I am now, and work and have a cookie. Today I sat down to ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... activists to establish a chapter of STAND (a student anti-genocide coalition

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even ... America won't be until April 8, 2024. I hope that as a species we begin to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of ... reducing themselves (and other applicants) to a bunch of numbers and a few ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... :-) (I never said I was going to give a representative tour :-D) Before

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... ! Reason #6: School cafeterias now offer a variety of hay options to ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  joined them—I decided that going to California with a ton of people would be better than going to a better location with just a few people. we ... homies @ TD garden[/caption] the next day, I went to a [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  a curiosity. Regardless, I thought it'd be fun to share. Happy ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to ... first email through mit[dot]edu! :D But yup yup. Just to give you a peek ... recent "bloggets" - this is going to be a super short blog. I have a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking ... Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009