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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  still haven't started my third pset that's due tomorrow." Faux ... project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet ... the amount of work they had done for a class--"Oh, I didn't even bother

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... T and talking trash about northern California weather. (65 degrees ... , cause I haven't answered any recently: 1. Phil asked, Is it really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the ... . Mike asked, "I don't want to sound materialistic or whatever, but can you ... students, so don't worry about being materialistic! Yes, you can do a UROP

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... '09: Taking 8.01L (which is physics for people who didn't take physics ... .0, C = 3.0, D = 1.0, and F = 0.0. This means that, so long as you don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  of January, but he wasn't certain." There is no "deadline," as we ... didn't get in, and have reapplied this year, we will see both ... ?" If the application tracking doesn't list a recommendation, odds are we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don't ... , but he didn't have much in common with them. Then he got a little ... parties going on that night, and the other two were a lot closer, but I didn't

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , please don't read any further. Just enjoy my witty repartee in the September 20 entry. There aren't any pictures there, but I promise it will ... bunch of '08s. Despite being three T stops away from campus, Porter Square

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  interview with james e. tetazoo and isn't discovering part of the fun?

  

  many times we tell them, there’s always a few people who don’t seem to ... explanations with incredulous eyes. some people don’t even think that james e ... themselves. after all, you certainly can’t interview someone who doesn’t exist

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed ... wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... animation, but it did teach me what I didn’t like to do with animation. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  the exam went, and I couldn’t pour endless hours into prep because of ... with my dear friend, Sydney P. ‘27. To be entirely honest, I don’t get ... nice to meet up and just chat—we hadn’t seen each other super often in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  and Joan Didion. WARHOL: Why can’t it just be magic all the time ... chasing each other through a circuit --- that isn’t life, Mulder. MULDER ... from Adventure Time that I don’t fully stand by but find amusing: Come on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments ... given turn was the dominant one, I don't think would have built cities and ... many frustrations, I can't help but think that the ultimate focus needs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... board (and video) games together. cj wasn't in our pod, but since i lived ... graduated. i don't remember whether he actually completed this, but from what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... part. You may now read the book (or this blog post, rather. I don’t know ... first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  don’t see any students I recognize, and sink a little lower in my seat ... probably wouldn’t recognize and who might be in 7.06 lecture with me. There ... , which Gmail filters out for me. Most of them aren’t actionable and I punt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  shouldn't really be an excuse, but I feel like the reason why I dislike ... like a blob of equations and manipulations with forces that I can't visualize, fields that I can't perceive. When I left high school, I vowed to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... competition, "Cry if you win because you're happy, but don't cry if you lose ... vast majority of people who apply aren't admitted. See it as a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  become much more [annotation note="when i say urgent, i don’t mean urgent ... really, really don’t need the answers yet. Maybe this post provides a way ... and come back at a later time”. you can read this post even if you don’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have ... that I don't just casually enjoy feels like a crime. Admitting that I ... confession out of my mouth. And it shouldn't feel like that! Being passionate

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  ]before realizing that I didn't like nanomaterials or physics enough to commit to ... didn't have a lot of pre-reqs and didn't seem overly technical at first ... Design 4.657: Design: The History of Making Things 21T.232: Producing

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025