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  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  is included in the term "extended family," and she thinks it's great that I'm doing so many awesome things, like watching April paint the room (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to ... the fact that it was the Friday before Labor Day weekend, but we were ... *.) Perhaps the ungodly gas prices kept people at home. The only line that we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... John Thain '77). On the bus ride down, I was reading today's New York Times, where there was an interesting column about the new SAT writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... little about Seattle that I don't like. I love the weather that never really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be scrolling through the packing playlist I made on spotify last month (mostly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth ... : The inspiration for this loft started with a really, really old house

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the Tech ... reality. I did that at both the Innovations Showcase and the Upload ... about the industry's future.       Washington DC: While we were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  7:48 AM The view from my window If you crane your neck, you can see the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the ... across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave: I was not pleased. But the weather was beautiful and I had waited four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... . There's generally a prompt, but the professor encourages us to go outside ... then we read it aloud to receive feedback from both the professor and our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting classes. As Facebook would say, here's the status update: -Waves and ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the highly maneuverable fins of the Bluegill sunfish: all of these natural

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... going through the mountains of mail that various schools have been so ... glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... thought that it was the most obvious thing in the entire world that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes... though, due to my time restrictions during application season and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  . We will also send out decisions via postal mail around the same time. We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... 's been lots of other exciting news, including the production of the first 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus become official college students! Often, I get emails asking what the ... some general demographic data in the freshman class profile, giving a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008