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  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  this is the least awkward of the 3 thumbnail options YouTube gave me. It ... To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket ... nice to have concrete answers to the phenomena of my life. It got to the ... book superhero, I’d boiled down the significant events of my childhood

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  up! Of all the food I’ve been eating, 78% has been free. Of all the t ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week ... and bounds. Hopefully by the end of these four year I will have found a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  -set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... . Let the games begin!! *** Er…I was expecting a fancy cloud of smoke ... however is roughly the size of Seven New Yorks, so extrapolating over the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer ... freshman year), none of the good shops are available after midnight. My ... slowly that I had to really simplify the rig, which ended up consisting of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... , had the goal of playing all the board games on floorpi before he ... liked it a lot, because the day after, he dm'd me this message: of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of the parts that I answered- including the ones I sort of blundered my way

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ?" I kind of just stared out the window without saying anything. I felt ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places--the ... into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in ... day here over a year ago I've heard some of the most entertaining bits

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the ... degradation of the culinary environment around me, I turned to various prominent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first ... , it's more popular in the east parallel of EC? Interesting... Silk Road

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... member of the other team, who had come running over to make the block. Foot ... of the game?” Four weeks later, I arrived at my new home - MIT campus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  the current state of water quality in Haiti. And somehow, it all came ... for hours under the collapsed remains of a building until someone came with an ice pick and dug him out of the destruction. We listened to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  ?) Besides the plenitude of classrooms, some of Building 4's most enjoyable ... for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... bunch of undergraduate minions - I mean, employees - to help out with the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first ... ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25 ... might want to live in, etc. You can see the schedule of CPW events in your ... have to indicate the gender preference of our host. Ex. I am female and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I ... hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post ... IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 10, 2015