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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  gradually see here. 6:30pm: Those in the office dig into the bi ... one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  would one day come in handy? Poring over this 30-page application opened ... -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread.  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... competition that day. Not with a teacher or a team or anything, just none of us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... HaikuBot two days ago, the members of the Discord have collectively

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... the class was so full the first day--I’ve learned so much already. 21G ... oversubscribed the first day, but I luckily got to whip out my Chinese minor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  the given prompts. Luana: In November 2021, I began the process of ... days now revolve around practice, class, work in the Admissions Office ... both aspects. Generally, I find most days enjoyable, with the exception

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and ... , what flies over the bay?" - which I discovered today, before visiting ... night if we didn't have to leave the facility at 9:30. This was a typical

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s monday, i thought, and maybe i should try to get work done today. that day ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really ... particular that happened since april, but june felt like this even more so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... bringing food to today, I met in class sophomore year (as it happens ... first day, the two of them were already sitting together, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... woke up today and ran into so many amazing costumes that I couldn't NOT post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  : Each silicon wafer can fit 25 solar cells, so we had space left for other ... something like that before, and I only had two days before the lab to pull it ... Day 1 [caption id="attachment_86583" align="aligncenter" width="225

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  exercise each morning. Ever since, I've been biking to work every day that it is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn ... broke the other day, and I went down to Wheelworks and hung out for 45

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  . Neither the 2020 Hunt, nor the 2021 Hunt, nor this hunt, have actually had ... day was again a blur. The round I remember most distinctly is New You ... backsolving too much, and calling in answers we were less sure of. That last day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  came out and the sky cleared around 3:30. (Whew!) We were married at ... 't arrive until about 3:25, the officiant mentioned during the ceremony that I ... cake-cutting knife in the car. But it was just such a joy-filled day with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... 'm not just saying that because I nearly hospitalized him today). I ended ... lecture, taught by a professor, which can have anywhere from 30 students in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  within 2 days of each other, making my November quite literally full of ... support this story. The days leading up to the conference, we all stayed up ... the ‘21-’22 school year. Although I’ve never taken part in Real Spinning

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  -0 win against Babson Saturday: 3-0 win against Worcester Polytechnic ... against SUNY Geneseo 3-1, but lost the very next day to Colby College 2 ... that he found me crying one day, wearing my new boot, saying, “I only

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  June, while in the heat of preparations of coming to school, I had to ... too bleak, especially because Class of '22 still get to take 3 GIRs on P

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018