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• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... day, I felt even confident enough to dare and hold a bunny in my arms at ... birds singing. I miss it sometimes. It used to be a charming and peaceful

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... pain in one of my molars, which was apparently due to a bacterial ... laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type ... to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... 't weigh anything?" and want to see more from Wilczek, you can find 3

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  about it, find a way to drop the hint in an essay: "When I visited XXXXXX ... beneficial to send in a new essay that I feel better explains who I am? Should ... CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask ... -college-application mindset. But it really, really, is okay to relax a little bit. Have trust in ... you do sketch out a possible path, do it in pencil, and be ready to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk ... quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting ... dedication and a desire to learn. Keep in mind, of course, that not every lab

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... prepared to sit around until a 5:30 departure. Only to find the passengers

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  musical instruments using them very soon. A dollar bill I got in 6.2060 for answering a question in lecture. I've taped it to the inside of the ... never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... route -- can you find the buildings?) Ready? Let's go! In that door

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... handed me a pair of crutches and said he would teach me to use them. I ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early Action and received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied). What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to check your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  every hunt participant had a little avatar that they could use to walk ... accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... encourages people to interact with others' snowflakes, which I find neat. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  weekend. We started off our time in New York with a trip to Pommes Frites ... ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to ... grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... of the trade that you'll just have to become a hacker to find out ... been known to watch a hack finishing, but only if it's taking place in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now ... , but that doesn’t do all that it used to, when I was taking them out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core ... runs the course and for the most part approximate a final exam in that class. If you take the ASE, the grade you get on the test stands in for a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016