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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  , and many of my friends played instruments in the orchestra and in various ensembles, as I imagine many of you will. Some of the best musical moments, however, were those found in the less formal, impromptu picking

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  soliciting design submissions until Saturday, July 9. What is the benefit of doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... through San Francisco, across the Bay (not Golden Gate) Bridge into Oakland ... , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  understand the fundamental physics behind this discovery would probably be ... , a faculty member, is actually one MIT's Nobel Laureates. He won the Nobel along with two other MIT alumni a few years back. From the MIT News

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  consulting firm, and is working on the eBay account. The eBay complex reminds me a lot of the Stata Center, with its bright colors, vibrant dining ... their buildings, like the cool people do, eBay names their buildings after

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the distance from your high school studies, the more creative you'll have to be
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  : community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other ... many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT ... year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to make this post well before the new year actually came around, a short ... . Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Instead, I take a lecture course, hashing out the basics. Differences between the two educational systems are very fundamental. As Kathy has said ... that tools will appear if the idea is planted in you. Learn about poetry

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  since I can remember I've been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast every morning, the constant reminder that I was skipping the most

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now ... , there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  [caption id="attachment_85857" align="alignleft" width="2560"] (the lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of ... to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... wanna graduate on time. The only problem is that there are so many cool

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  Spotify Wrapped day and the festivities surrounding it happened a long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their ... slides, but it also seems like people often don't agree with how the data

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on something other than the IV sticking into my arm. I noticed a particularly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012