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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  to have a system that's working for me now and impressing myself with ... Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  these words in an abstract for one of his papers: "When a man sits with a ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies ... These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  backgrounds with demonstrated academic preparation for MIT in our applicant pool ... least for our specific education) combined with the narrowly tailored ... educational missions of institutions of higher education for all students, with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  which I'm not struck with exhilarating thankfulness for the position and ... Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Add an egg on top for protein, and you're done. F(V, G, S) = H2(S1(V1 ... Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... specific lengths, or make a cube with slightly different inputs, but the idea

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years ... have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't remember where - with my instructor supporting me on top of the water with ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  touch with her. She took me out for Indian food to talk me through what I ... Previously: Boomeranging. Content warnings for detailed discussion ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man ... , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... been the MIT valedictorian, with a major in "nonlinear cryptography

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  for a test and walk out of it with your heart sinking, while ahead of ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... —and kept at me with different small exercises I could try. It wasn’t a fun

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... wrong with MIT, and how they think we should fix it. It was 3:15pm last ... finally got someone to answer, it was an older man with a bone to pick. “I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  about how Zoom is terrible for people with no attention span. He said ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... 'm with my friend from Norway who I met two years ago in Israel! As several

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

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  play your instrument) for a few months or forever; listen to yourself ... strengtheners, and play with putty. By the end, I was a lot better at those ... some inches down and then some inches up again.    I signed up for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021