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  A Beautiful Day

  

  It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk ... "bridge circuit"), and lots of sailboats in today's gusting wind. It made me ... take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... understandable. It was also around this time that I just started to give up in my ... , or media. I decided to check it out and I realized it was perfectly up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few ... ’t know what half the variables mean. 1:00 — I go to economics class. It’s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  ’t make the Early Action deadline, it is okay to apply Regular Action (RA ... action cycles. It doesn’t matter to us. AHHHHH MY INTERVIEWER HASN ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  could not put my thoughts together while studio’ing it up for midterm reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... and Anna have said, undergrad admissions is but a phase and it’s so

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... INVADERS!" they exclaimed. The place was a bit too remote for me – its ... – but I suppose it’s passable for a just a few days. Thank God there was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  Here are some updates from the Admissions Office... Applications: It ... it, we just know that we have not processed it. We will not look at your application unfavorably because it is missing an application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  my current situation, but I can't remember it because I didn't end up ... 've got six days to choose a grad school. I've got it narrowed down to the ... paradise of Stanford. But it's hard--grad school is different because you don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  standing in line in front of Laila! (It's always half fun, half awkward when ... , the little dome, and the big dome one right behind the other. It's not a particularly pretty picture necessarily, but it really appeals to me. And now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  40 minutes late. It's kind of disconcerting to wake up on a bus in ... myself down with a discerning eye for road signs (I love Ambuh). But it ... like this anyway, it was raining when I got to Maine, but I nevertheless

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  , and the roofdeck. Each building has its own four floors and its own ... the building, making it visible from the third-floor portal to the 282 ... . Before my sophomore year I finally painted it the three shades of green you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  for censorship boxes.) I've also been interested in how we tell stories ... we wear and the things we use. In high school, I used to joke about how ... MIT, I joke about how I can tell someone's personality just by looking

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  graduation rites, there was a defined moment when we graduated. It was when the ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It Was Here. It goes: But I love you more than words can say I can't count

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  , or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. https ... it time and have a little patience.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work, and, as I wrote in Early, it would not have been possible without the ... your applications, the support staff who made it possible for them to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to write another uncomfortably personal essay [annotation note="unless you ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... dang cute. I have no idea what this is, but it looks straight out of ... touch of nostalgia. It was generally agreed upon that this piece looked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  places, at Engadget, CNET, and BostInnovation. Check it out: Burton ... because we were bored." Want to try it yourself? Burton-Conner Tetris

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... Cam: Check it out!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010