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• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  admitted to MIT are admitted to the entire university and may choose any ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year ... of order and length; dates need not be 100% accurate. Diana wrote, "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  anyone so acutely aware of their presence and impact on others, someone who ... 've really relied on and especially appreciated these past couple of months. I ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... considering changing my default username on sites, and many of my ideas still ... around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  : I spent as much on textbooks this semester as I spent on food*. And ... and Vegetables was the Soviet Russia of categories in the previous graph ... stores on Massachusetts Avenue north of MIT instead of at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  . 363 days. The gym isn’t going anywhere on any of those days, right? I ... four hours, and we’re working over the sounds of MrMrMangoHead on Youtube ... me incredibly homesick, and so I just lay on the mattress of my studio

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... putting sleep and meals on the back burner (pun intended). My classes and ... outside and wears sneakers. Walks into a deep puddle on my way to Stata

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  and liked any of these, or check them out based on my recommendation ... , and commute home, I have a ton of time left over, and tbh ... available right then and I could literally start reading it on the way home

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom ... 's Department of Materials Science and Engineering created the Breakerspace a year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  kinds of impressions I would make on people, and whether they would hate ... feel at home. A large group of strangers might wander into your suite and ... around me, and I just have all of this freedom and nobody telling me that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  built on top of soil. It’d be a bad look if your newly constructed home ... software. One of these, and the one we’re focusing on in this class, is ... inefficient with time and enjoy the simple pleasure of being Home, sleeping, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  seen any part of your application and are not interested in your grades ... little research on the web, and think of some questions to ask. Remember ... : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  loosened their grip on my leg muscles, enough that my mental map of what MIT ... truly happen once, and I have squeezed out every single drop of the ... which have seen what the campus looks like in full bloom, and the rest of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of ... hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice ... hours, like 1pm, when you are aware of which behaviors do and do not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was ... .  Herbert actually gave me a tour of his lab and the JPL campus, and it was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  idea of what i wanted to learn or focus on, and part of it was me ... the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman ... phrasing you like more i suppose during the summer, fall, and winter of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main ... representative sample of chaos, blogger Alan sends along these photos and videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  later, and they are all accessible from the highway on the other side of ... to my room and read 2 pages of a book and then scrolled on my phone. I ... ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  drawing a sad smiley on the final page of a difficult midterm and hoping you ... home. The first round of admissions decisions will be out soon, and the ... letters of acceptance and rejection from wherever we applied—and on having

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013