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• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

   but a small bit of me is very very sad right now and i'm trying to make ... application processes as a way for me to simply learn more about myself and get ... life. In just a few minutes, I have to board my flight - but I hope this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics ... got to the game and got our tickets distributed without a hitch. One ... I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I ... convinced me to join. I had a great time (go team 30!) but a whole list of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... had to look it up on a map. I also tend to know nothing about geography

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far ... found that out I knew that I needed to take a Delaney class before they ... people cook and serve a vegetarian meal to a group of about 12 people who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... videos gave me secondhand embarrassment in a matter of seconds; I had to go back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... competition, when we'd have ten minutes to discharge six shots into a paper ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... turned out to be a fabulous idea because the auditorium filled up. In the ... ; Potomac Ballroom A The public's access to our field has historically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... come true. “You have no right to be shy, when you have a gift to give ... ’t even fully understand. “You have no right to be shy, when you have a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... had little to no interest in joining a frat here at MIT. It was a ... became a brother of Theta Chi. I'd talked a lot to Noah about the whole

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  until the coin is found, usually sometime Sunday. To give you a flavor of ... Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and ... Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  turbine pumps water out of a storage volume anchored to the seabed. ORES ... as a way to lighten soldiers’ loads. Professor Belcher is a materials ... life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as Professor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of this too honestly too much of this some of this and a sad amount

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy ... , you should go out to the library and get a copy now! It's a great read ... While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society ... , Boris Alexeev proved a theorem related to the theory of automata, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on ... from Panama. The Altar Boyz played at the Colonial Theatre to a very ... I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  place. "There Is No Formula" Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a formula. It's like trying to ... who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this ... ), and the freedom to randomly call up a friend to chat, without worrying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011