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  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ’s MIT-speak for “undergraduate research”), I work with a team of awesome ... , econ, poli sci and others– for consideration and the top 100 finalists ... sciences. It’s completely undergraduate-run, but produced with support from

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

    to feel cool. I enjoy role-playing with my sister and going to the zoo ... showers the fences with a high-pressure hose, and it confuses me. Why clean the fences when they don’t even close? Cars here slow down for a deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  creating my own dance videos was so fun for me. Over the years, I’ve learned ... dance for over a month, I delete it or put it in a subfolder to free up ... dances that are SO fun how do I learn choreography? do whatever works for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the ... there was another, truer narrative, with luck as its theme. What were the ... story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  decisions for Early Action have been made. We'll release the decision date ... next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  for fun," referencing "All Star" by Smash Mouth, the song I was ... -day cards signed by all the bloggers. This means that we sat down, faced an ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing. Signing your name that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  existential WHY DID I SIGN UP FOR THIS? crisis, but the class itself was a ... like "Tell us all about the trombone" - I played the trumpet for eight ... can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... weekend eating photogenic desserts with a friend who thinks everything

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  vibrating with anticipation for the event, to hear everything he had to say ... Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun" and I shit you not when I say it ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... story about some people whom he’d met at Free Tibet rallies who ... people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... of small towns with misleading names: Paris, Norway, Oxford, Poland ... INVADERS!" they exclaimed. The place was a bit too remote for me – its

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  ??? are we ok??? top listener stats: Tier 1: audrey: Top 0.005% for Halsey masha: top 0.05% for Tame Impala alice: top 0.05% for Ricky Montgomery Tier 2: amber: top 0.10% for The Killers alan: top 0.5% for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  played :)  Side quests. I want to explore and embrace spontaneity with my ... MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star Market for some necessities (i.e. Frosted Flakes). (Although it was kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe ... college admissions circles for her conviction that the increasingly ... . [...] Now, she's teaming up with the American Academy of Pediatrics to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  that it was time for some more bouncing. A bunch of friends bounced with ... paper and started playing around with that, quickly discovering that the ... was crawling with phys plant (slang for facilities workers) waxing the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... --which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  to share this play-by-play to make a point: This was a good day for me ... and be with so many people that I love. I had fun! I learned new things ... . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008