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• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a ... . Sometimes those people get in. More often (and truly, mostly because of class

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  [annotation note='In addition to my handful of close Bentry friends, whom I also ... thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... when I was eleven), I lived in Georgia, in a suburb of Atlanta where my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus ... 2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack ... current (and future) MIT students, I suspect, I loved the BTTF movies as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  's just a Q&A session, which I'll skip, in favor of you all asking ... Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic ... for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  they are terrible. HOW CAN YOU HATE THIS FACE, PETEY!? All in all, the ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... ! Pictures of Food Deviled Eggs by Alex C. '15 Buffalo Chicken Mac &

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.

  

  . :-) I just saw Omar '10 in the Infinite and he mentioned that housing ... all end up. I have a lot of blog-comment-questions to respond to - look for an entry to this effect in the next couple of days.

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... been a core course in mechanical engineering at MIT. Our own Dean of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laptop There should be a special place in hell for laptop thieves.

  

  I already turned in my thesis. ... dammit, my laptop and camera got stolen out of my room. Campus police has been thusfar unhelpful as usual in locating the perpetrators. These

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes ... cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in ... applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss ... now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... first weekend of August. In the meantime, I've somehow taken over 138 GB ... videos. I put together a short tour of my dorm and room in Zürich with the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  So I just read this article in Time Magazine about bringing schools out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your ... I highlighted in this entry.

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts ... demand in the comments below, here is Holly's list of scams (TM): Living ... Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015