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• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... , for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  about laptops for MechE. I have a different answer now than I've had in ... . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris’ Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France’s famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know exactly where I've put things even if it's messy and out in the open and not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk ... time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  an uninterrupted 20 minutes, approx. 9 am, my room on the fifth floor ... use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear ... everywhere, without ever having to focus. Marshall McLuhan * * * * * for more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... muscles, you can still get your legs up there using your momentum. (For ... land for long before we began risking our lives yet again. The leaning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  't qualified for MIT, or that your myriad achievements in high school weren ... For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events ... home for the longest time. in fact, i was fascinated and envious of ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student ... minute. For as long as I can remember, I was one of the smartest kids in my ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  large shoes made for walking in soft ice next time. At the same time ... I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how ... think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... those steps was moving off campus. And that is why I moved off campus for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name ... Weather Channel's new ratings-driven non-scientific naming system for winter storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... two things. One : If you've got a Ms. Frizzle in your life, don't be

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the ... application numbers for the past five years, starting with last year and working ... is just for fun. No prizes will be awarded, just pride and bragging

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a ... say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  check your decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you ... .mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to ... decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this now to make sure everything works for you. Strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  . '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... kitten except for little Brittany! Kayla hasn't decided on a name yet

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014