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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... MIT or is there now: give yourself a break to LIVE. Take stretch ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  group set to running the scripts on some of their favorite other schools ... the leaderboard earlier. This is right at the onset of MIT's attempt to ... addition was a little pink star above the top list of schools. On to us

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... because you know you want to do it, not because of money or rankings or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  cool that is. That's nothing short of exhilarating to me, to know that ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

   ever is Living Thing Inside or On Another Living Thing, but this is probably ... Better Than I Thought It Would Be Bar-Be as the Lady with a Lot of Money ... I Have Ever Completed To Be Mad At Someone (or, The Stuff Inside the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... offending hardcore geneticists out there, or if I breezed over some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  involves testing fifteen different designs to see which is the most efficient ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the ... Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year ... university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to ... school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... from my last conversation with him, which I was so lucky to film about a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... maybe 300 parents (lol indeed) I'm also a big fan of SEGFAULT: Which ... fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... with a sense of inspiration and a desire for greatness like I wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... , aeronautical, and nuclear engineering, all of which were pioneered at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... than I have encountered at MIT. Basically what I want to say is that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011