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  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... appealing: kids helping kids. I love the way that sounds. Our fundraising ... anything, I definitely have an entire group of people willing to help me out

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest ... challenge. VOTING TIME LINE – Start: 8:00am EST on Monday, 1/5 –

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  and i had zero bandwidth for working on research or exploring mit or ... i. i watched the anime attack on titan last year and liked it a lot ... commander of the protagonists sees this and shouts “keep on the lookout

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  I was planning an another entry on the reading process, and since ... this entry on those questions (a formal Questions Omnibus will follow in ... evaluate per day?" It depends on the reader. In our process, the more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  (!!) and always being my number one fan on twitter and beli random chats ... one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It's raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway, because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna ... quesadillas. It today opened its fourth restaurant in Boston, in the MIT Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  ;     cute penguins     Earlier today I went on a ... I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... person after all. Now, there are much simpler things on my mind, like

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  there was fried chicken. SPICY fried chicken. On December 31, the ... mountain on the island Then one day, we went South and it suddenly felt ... two teachers explore the coast... And sunset... Not to sound corny

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  traffic on the roads. I just had to drive around the block, do some ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... on the process. My fall semester classes perfectly aligned such that I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture ... in the communities that needed fuel. She works with students on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Today - or I guess, now yesterday - was a special day on 5th East. Well, many days are special on 5th East, but today was Clayton '08's 19th ... and Bethany '06, who normally lives on 1st East but is currently on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  would love to help you through admissions, but we expect a little work on ... their entries. This enables one-on-one interaction with bloggers for help ... 'm writing this from the train on the way to work. Please heed my advice: When

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or inline, on mobile; note that the desktop ... throughout the post, in case readers want to explore more context than we could

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  synthesized electronic music, or live piano improvisations based on the songs of ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... glide slowly along the planet’s surface. The quivering black dots on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... was probably more like two, a voice appeared on the loudspeaker to ... , and happens quite often. Usually the reason is that there's something on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  in my window which conveniently corresponds to the fact that I live on ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the ... awesome phoenix design on it, while the white one has the Aperture

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  interesting goings-on take place in these living rooms - house meetings, dance ... penthouse. The tower on the left (called the East Tower) is filled with several singles, whereas the tower the on the right (logically called the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  to focus on symbols when the body wanted only to escape to bed. I began to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my first MIT math exam. On the same day, both my math professors brought up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting ... into my spleen, the guy on my right bathed in eu d'blah-blah-YOU'RE ON AN ... night becaue you thought you'd get better rest on the plane, when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007