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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  mean 'since I became an admissions blogger'. To this day, I maintain that ... complement the substance of our life experiences, or something equally ... intriguing that little glimpse into MIT through the blogs was, or how curious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  quarterfinals against Clark, we win 6-0. Two days later is the semifinals, where we snag a solid 6-1 W against Springfield and move onto the ... the whole season: Babson. With the first warm day in a while, the sun

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like ... (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an ... [annotation note="Technically, they're 6 credits, or half a class, but I would not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  . Looking back though, I remember being hesitant when deciding on whether or ... ; [carousel image1="113486" image2="113488" /]   So after getting off my ... Boston.  [carousel image1="113571" image2="113570" image3

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really ... braincell when we're within the vicinity of each other.   Cooked or are

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs ... (about MIT or in general!), you have a choice whether or not to believe ... masochistic undertake, or would you say that it's totally doable and wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  recommendation from a coach, boss, or community/religious group mentor; a note ... -material like a letter stating why one wants to study there or the optional ... interests while admitting or is it only the marks on paper and olympiads that

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

  Selection Day 2

  

  , which are intentionally randomized each half day or so. We will ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... in MIT students (if you've come to an information session or read My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat ... on the second day of the conference.   This is a study hall ... : Impact Investing. Another panel on the second day of the conference

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  your hand when you released it), but its displacement is zero. Or, if we ... . The walk from my dorm to anywhere with food or classes is generally about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  Facebook feed featured three different people from that room saying, "Planet ... ! You Pretty Things" during a set. (Or 2009? 2011? I've been doing this a ... , put on your red shoes, and dance the blues. Every year by 1 AM, everyone

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... of 7 laps in 4 minutes (tying with the best score), and we were only a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  particular moment or experience. as a result, i don't think there are any ... seen better days, but their defining characteristic is that the lead ... . i added this song because i [annotation note="the easy parts, not the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some ... to remember even (and especially) when I'm stressed out or when nothing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  universities and medical schools offer biomedical engineering (or bioengineering ... http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/major.html, or yesterday ... is here (thanks Phil). Tomorrow: another selection committee day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  ideas ball the next day (a party that 1E throws every IAP for Bad Ideas ... sugar and flour, and 7 large cans of shortening. On the way back, Kristen ... could roll it out and press it into the pie tin on bake day. The official

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  work (Photo credit: Bobby Ren) To catch up: 1st quarter at MIT, I took P ... opportunity came on March 7. At 4 AM (yes, that is A.M.)– 2 busses pulled up at 77 Mass. Ave., picking up 48 people. 40-or-so of which would wait in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  one of the cultural houses, like Spanish House or French House! Want to ... 's McCormick or the Women's Independent Living Group! With all our dorms ... love Simmons. I like being able to come "home" at the end of the day and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at ... of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I ... , leaving Boston for a little weekend trip in New York or New Hampshire

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025