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  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  first term sophomore year. A lot of the other nonlinear dynamics courses ... DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... some score-writing software within the next three days. I took TBP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  math) That one culture essay on the first part of the application: I ... end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  the beach"? I guess this is just a question of style. If the first ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... ? Well, the answer is that taking vacation in the peak of application

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four" with "three and more!" Note that out of about ten people in the marching ... 't recognize you. And that is why you should have a beard at MIT. On the first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the ... -dimensional effort to help the residents of Gretna in all areas of life, not just housing. LAW's core mission is now the encouragement of spiritual growth in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket ... nice to have concrete answers to the phenomena of my life. It got to the ... book superhero, I’d boiled down the significant events of my childhood

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... members of the MIT community, from prefrosh to grad students, are helping ... played it before in my life or even held the slightest bit of interest in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  undergraduate residential halls"]New House,[/annotation] the first night of WISE ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... was the first fly-in she applied to.  Daymé had her heart set on MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the ... with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the first day of class. MASLab is staffed entirely by students, who give us

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from the freshman point of view and one from the upperclassman point of view

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  alarms, the torrential rain on the first day of classes, and playing tetris ... love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of ... 'm slightly afraid of the person i would become if i lived in LA. portland is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  that characterizes his interpretation of French cuisine. The first dish ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  struggling with the first 8.04 pset. I hate the idea of spending long hours ... poorly in all of them. Part of this was because all three of the classes ... take. A lot of these classes do fall within the realm of [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  ? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... packets so i could make it myself.) i try to emulate the ghosts of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... bottom of the email, after we had already (extensively) drafted, reviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  ” because they own binary clocks and have memorized the first 100+ digits of ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  ’m proud to be part of the FLI (first-generation, low-income) community. I ... In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022