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• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  calendar of note (aka, all of the things on my calendar): Science Bowl ... excellence in some aspect of the humanities, arts, or social sciences”. In ... Bowl Buzzer Pickup: For Science Bowl, we needed to lug 24 boxes of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  , regardless of whether you apply for RBA or not. Even if you don't apply for the ... didn't actually apply for RBA, so it didn't make a lot of sense that I ... artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  THE APPLICATION IS LIVE! because why bury the lede

  

  my god... it's full of words       > > > click this button to apply to MIT < < <     

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... ...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don't get it: the Stata Center houses the Computer Science and Artificial

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  come in." MIT offers dozens and dozens of Physical Education courses each ... , my date of birth, and the words 'supplemental materials.' " Fabrice ... of the items in MyMIT means that someone has alredy read that part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  - University of Zambia Disacare - wheelchair center IDE - International ... So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I ... , you already had your college days. No applying to MIT!), and some of you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  behind the University of Kentucky, making 239 laps around the track. For ... but silent. The shrill call of cicadas offered a sense of solidarity ... , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . 2) Brain and Cognitive Sciences Guinea Pig MIT has a ton of ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  doubtless, many of you applying to basically anything ever have had it asked ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  's Department of Materials Science and Engineering created the Breakerspace a year ... spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011