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  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but unfortunately it was all Spam's idea. Thanks, Spam. Unfortunately, in the mean ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any case, selection committee is a pretty intense exercise as far as the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... like the taste of coffee. I oftentimes burn myself when pouring coffee ... what I wrote towards the end of class. Something about capital mobility

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  giants--like, people over 6'6"--hit them over the head, and put them in his ... until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very first time. Last night I woke up at 5:30 to put the finishing touches on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  , receive what might be called Technology Review++, that is, the usual ... . The highlight for many alums is the "Class Notes" section, a regular ... received news from 29 members of the Class of 2000 members; below, find an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... , and developed, but I struggled. I am trying to finish the projects I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW ... questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to ... ? I know that it gets confusing with the over 200 events listed on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  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 ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For ... jump over anything less than a gilded fence.[/caption] The instructor ... assume means that these are the best and most beautiful ponies ever to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  sleep so well? You keep telling me to live rightTo go to bed before the daylightBut then you wake up for the sunriseYou know you don't gotta pretend ... for meYou're too sweet for me OohOohOohOoh I aim lowI aim true, and the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I ... Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... can. Thanks, Ekanem BC Front Desk The next day a second email arrived

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in the house instead of disaffiliating because I wanted to explore this new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  -management were the standard, pre-planned journals that my school would give me ... ="relatable?"]phase.[/annotation] The good thing about bullet journaling is that you have infinite customizability, but the bad thing is that, uh, you have infinite customizability

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... the shit they talk about you is downright rude, racist, or sexist. I ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the Bay Area, and different from the one Dawn gave back in 2013. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... up the bio and pics, and then waited some more until I came back to the dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded ... became the structures that we see today. One such large-scale structure is the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014