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  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... that care for each other in an environment that also has a reputation for ... toons (a guest performance for the olin college powerchords): toons sang

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... extracurriculars. He was a varsity cross-country and track runner for his high school ... MIT for a long time, considering he's from Massachusetts. I guess maybe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution ... players and be done with it? For a football team, why not choose all the biggest players? Or the fastest? For a band why would it matter if you had

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... . Afterwards, eight or so of us went for coffee. I wrote down a list of my ... a list of books and essays for M., who reads Joan Didion and all kinds

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  listings and making a hypothetical schedule for yourself on WebSIS. 6 ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  whole lot easier said than done, but don't for a second doubt your worth ... to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for ... ’t have any idea. For a while it was “astronaut.” This vocational path ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... week! And training for a marathon! What was I, Superdude? Seriously, the ... for "Since U Been Gone" on Wikipedia. So that happens like once a week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a city that at the time I couldn’t point out on a map.  I am so guilty for ... some friends. We stood in line for hours next to a sixteen year old who

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle has several benefits, especially in a city like Boston. For one ... , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... : WHY am I not good enough for them? [annotation note="Nothing like a ... ! It's because I suck as a human being and am destined for the trash life

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... ="attachment_84027" align="aligncenter" width="225"] dragon horns for a different ... ; split the bar — ½ for the blade, ½ for the tail I cut it with a bandsaw

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled ... , overlap each other, blot out the sun, and consume my entire life for a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  girl was really pretty, but she bore a really guarded expression for most ... from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... . I had a mixed chicken curry or something. It blew my mind away – more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... something for our client. We met with our client a couple times to try and ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015