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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  absolutely zero of them. Shock, I know, one of the faces of the MIT Admissions ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the ... a list of the people I know. Sorry for being blunt, I don't really

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... of things that refill my will to live, both with 4 songs. The longest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  and early college clinging onto the snippets of poetry you reblogged ... visited a comic book store in the basement of an unassuming building. you ... . and that's the core of it, isn't it? the problem is that you're so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... dance practice, and the much-needed stretches of silence and concentration ... coming. I pulled my first real all-nighter – ever – the day of the final

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for every single day. I knew all the genres of stations, and I thought I knew

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... , glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get ... sophomores to bring new life into the team. And of course, if we are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting ... pandemic you could find me really capitalizing on the entirety of Friday

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ... from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... possibilities. New cities, new paths unfolded, and MIT was out of the picture. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... lots of East African classics in line with my project theme which was the timeline of East African music in the past half-century or so. This was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a strange object was placed on the facade of lobby 7. I'm not really sure ... effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  the heart of the Alps. Our lab works with extremely low temperatures, so ... all parts of the world and help them determine their magnetic properties ... in the Alps, and take advantage of the July sales that happen all

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... member of the Foreign Languages & Literatures (Chinese) faculty and ... So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the movements) of all the chess pieces when I decided to hit the download button

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more ... 'll see laptops dispersed throughout the sea of papers. Although it says

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... 'll start reviewing applications sometime near the first weekend of November ... . Track the status of your application at my.mit.edu. Students like to call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... part of home, a part of me, of my life for the past 14 years. Each time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important changes for most people is the task of cooking meals. With LaVerde's open ... at the inside. It contains a twisted bar of aluminum that plugs into an

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009