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• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  friends believe in me for reasons entirely unrelated to MIT. None of that ... - rehearse it in you head, and make peace with it. Anyway, I just got an e ... been around for a long time. He's met a lot of people. He's seen an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  can stop everything in my life for this great blue and then, when i feel ... roses. it waits for you to be eager, to let go of the meteor in your fist ... easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  fair and a common reason for taking an ASE. Go for it if you have a lot ... , these classes come in ~flavors~. Each class has a regular and an "advanced ... It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Demotivators for Christmas from someone who knows me far too well, and just ... ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo

  

  .org/blogs/entry/the-holy-grail-of-hacks-returns/ Also, the code for Tetris is now open source for you to make your own ... back in the fall of my first year was intended to be a Mario movie watch ... Justin, better. He arranged Remix 10 from Rhythm Heaven Fever for VGO, and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  in true MIT style. Thanks for continuing the conversation. ... for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring ... biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are ... picture from an event called Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.), sponsored ... ’ contraption for the MIT Museum sponsored Friday After Thanksgiving (F

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... IAP-you operate at your own level. Want to go abroad or do an externship ... , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  world works out here in NJ. We spent Wednesday with my mom and aunt at the ... panicked when I called her as I was leaving my house in the morning. But when ... visited my old high school and was the "guest speaker" in the AP Physics C

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know ... write an entry with just this in it: Dear Student, When you have a chance ... all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had ... an extremely low night, but instead of wallowing in that extreme ... taking the class with Ceri R. ’16, two people who live on my floor in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an ... ! Even before I arrived in Boston, Kristjan Eerik Kaseniit ’14 made an ... since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  , Annecy, and Brugge (an idyllic town in northwestern Belgium). I spent last ... éel at CNRS Salut! I'm spending my summer in Grenoble, France, at the Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  , but it's definitely more for people who write longer posts. The check-ins ... , unfortunately I am not going to post an ad for your startup on my blog). It makes ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  for my family. During my time in undergrad, the Admissions Office ... officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  building wells in an Ethiopian village, or something simple, like watching a ... hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... 's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005