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• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  Zedaph, and the continuous theme of his Hermitcraft Season 9 adventures has been what he calls “Zedvancements.” On top of the standard advancements that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it…
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... (usually) nude model poses in the middle of a room in a series of timed poses

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... wednesday of april, i could almost feel covid looming threateningly over me ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... , no one heavily edits my blog posts, no one quality controls most of the ... yet, Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later, took me two weeks of work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... some of these things. Since freshman spring, I only ever taken as many ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have ... gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11, which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• 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

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... -tier research mentors and an exceptional peer group. MIT PRIMES and Art of Problem ... both Richard and AoPS, along with lots of other great programs and people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... /ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well.   I asked members of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…

  

  graduation in Hawaii :P" Send your MIT '10 end-of-year photos to benjones at m

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  As a child, I was a hugely voracious reader. I spent the majority of my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021