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• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send the deposit? No deposit is required. Just be sure to send in the form ... apply to be an admissions blogger next year? Contact us in August and let

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... for $3 in 26-100, had invited the MIT Marching Band (MMB?) over to play ... SOS or a pre-FUBAR Tom Cruise, because I had already made plans to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  performance in audio and retrieve to us what you learn about Germany? It's just I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in ... 't have to juggle a four- or five-class MIT workload with play rehearsals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  enjoy being able to bring up Marx in every single class discussion - apart ... 've been dealing with, the question to ask is not "should I do this?" or ... So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... following someone dressed in a monkey suit running through the halls, or ... facts. Or at least quality video. In about 5 weeks, when I only have a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  time of applying to college (whether to MIT or to somewhere else), in the ... resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  other had to write down the code in pseudocode or a language of their ... afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on ... DID YOU KNOW? In his second autobiography, published in 1991, Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  , decreasing, or neither? The challenge: identify the trend portrayed in a line ... straightforward to identify if a trendline has a basically increasing or decreasing ... automatic algorithm would have to handle. In their paper about Reverse

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... , cramming in the few details I wanted (and needed) to remember. And ... their worst this semester, I talked to a few trusted people in my life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... four years have meant. The writer in me feels like there's so much to ... !) I bought my laptop case back in the summer of 2017, before moving to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  do the math before recording in big rooms since the ability to ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to ... , walked on stage to kick us off with the Hacker’s Map, the decibel levels in

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  it obvious what did or did not contribute to the overall flow. Another ... up, put them in the order that makes the most sense to read, and ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... 've been writing to since my freshman year in high school will be taking a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  points in your own jar, or nickels and quarters as negative points in the ... or not, several of these cakes were made by guys! Way to go, guys ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a ... Tunes, although it was nice to have premade playlists in genres that I liked. This ... significant to my freshman year in some way. So for this post, I wrote down all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  allusions to. We got the essay prompt before Thanksgiving: who, or what ... responsibilities, would I have the self-discipline to still put in the work? I hope ... read the textbook. I went running. I forced myself to take a seat in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020