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  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  As you probably remember, we are launching the new MITAdmissions.org soon! As in: this Thursday, midmorning. Right now, we are finishing up migrating over 5,491 old blog posts. Also, our venerable blogging platform

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun ... , rowers float their way past my window. My roommate's prefrosh is up early

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  the GPRs (General Pirate Requirements) (I just came up with that. No one

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  life that I end up just sleeping through the stress (last semester), I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  -generation American. As an only child, Lilly, as she describes it, grew up in their labs ... American Culture, and watching several episodes growing up. After a friend ... notifications, blew up on the front page of Reddit, and even had an Ask Me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  goal, and break the pathway up into parts, and solve them in sequence, and, if I set it up right and did everything correctly, I could get the ... not to plan everything out, but to switch it up, and have it be a rest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  Snapchat and were keeping up with the social medias last week, you already ... each day was as follows: Wake up --> Food --> Sailing --> Food ... don’t have the goal to mess up others. After afternoon sessions, we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  I ended up getting to see Leslie in Kresge. sneaky far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  've redistributed personnel throughout the rooms that make up the admissions office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  stay focused and not let work from this class pile up, because the work ... because it hasn't ramped up in abstraction yet and because holomorphic ... .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  -12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  dump tea bags into the Boston Harbor, hang up lanterns in the North

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  . More on that later...). I look up to John Maeda as someone who has

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  success. After an hour in which nobody showed up, followed by another hour ... , people finally started showing up in the numbers that we had been hoping ... , to President Reif stopped by at one point or another to check up on our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  did too. I did some more integrals leading up to the contest. My ... lame. U-subs all the way. I showed up at the event. I recognized a few ... else they were very good at bluffing). They had us go up in groups of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  @ MIT (with links to images): 12/3: Swinging Piñatas 11/22: Up the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  up on your MyMIT tracking page. If you think one of your missing ... ! Okay, I sent [Document X]. Why hasn’t it shown up on my tracking page yet ... they will show up on your MyMIT tracking. Keep checking your MyMIT page

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... next couple nights. Between leftovers and odd nights where I don’t end up ... from packing up sandwiches and snacks, I only end up cooking 2-3 nights

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... time each day. The first time I thought of taking up rowing was as a pre ... than I had expected. That first day on the river we rowed up to Harvard

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015