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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata ... displayed his or her drawings and models and gave a short presentation to a ... , 2016) explains her models to an audience of architecture students and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates ... . college firsts: first shower: it'll take a lot of getting used to. first

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... trial, theater, or athletics. We were an unassuming group of nerds ... . “That is correct.” My heart snagged on the gap between her words. I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  posting on the [annotation note="the schedule board is a beautiful mess of ... to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... confidence of an improv artist pretending to be a surgeon. Turns out, the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... also because the rest of her team is grieving her loss. To be honest, we ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC ... like will be posted when I return on Monday or late Sunday night.

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  (still working on that). Following the release of admissions decisions ... MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available online on Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 PM EDT... actually, we’ll probably

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... on campus, you should come see in person, instead of relying on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  to work on other puzzles, but despite my recharging with pizza, carrot sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... to see if you can come up with any bright ideas: Odd One Out Or maybe

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think ... measurement of your worth. A decision does not validate or invalidate your life or experiences. A decision is not a culminating experience or the end

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... microcontroller labs due over the past couple of days. One of them just stopped to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  , but a lot of really cool stuff had to be left on the cutting room floor ... A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  The little that is completed vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I'm trying to prepare him for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which is ... enjoy it. It's an easy and fun way to make some money on the side of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... [annotation note="shoutout to KEXP Seattle. yes this is my dad’s favorite radio

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019