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• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  pictures...(I must say I got a good laugh out of the first one, and I just ... from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and ... by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  and teach 9 out of the 10 days mostly on my own. (don't worry, she ... , echoing the beauty of its flower gardens. Armenian was the dominant language ... experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• FAQ / Transfer

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  We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants. Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  stopped and read the first line. I started screaming on the top of my lungs ... . Getting into MIT. I will never forget when I refreshed the page, and the ... lines of, “The decisions are ready.” My heart skipped a beat, and my mom

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... project with a team for the first time ever at hackMIT instead of just ... the middle of middle-of-nowhere new hampshire"]ossipee[/annotation] and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  groups, and this time of the semester is when they all give their ... production of firebringer, and the video game orchestra had their fall concert ... creation and expression, and of sharing that with others, and the joy felt of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Instead, I decided to unpack everything and set up my whole room the day of ... advantage of that on weekends. We usually play ping pong, and the first time ... month!! We played Super Smash Bros! And watched the first episode of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  of Pakistan, the worst in the country's history and the 4th most ... . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  to mention it shows up better on the page and doesn't fade. My pen of ... , books, and all the rest of your stuff, keeping it shut will prevent pages ... , and the white dotted pages are from the current one I’m using right now

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... divorce, to the joys of reading, and every harrowing, enriching

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  the hallways, wonderful communities to join, and a whole city to explore ... communities I was a part of—marching band and Science Olympiad and all the other ... if I’d change the amount of time and energy I put into them. But this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  the probability that the next child of Individuals 1 and 2 will be ... . Mathematics of the integrate-and-fire neuron a) For a spherical neuron with a ... _0, the left and right sides of the equation agree and that when t

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of ... write some code that would help me grok the scope and impact of the blogs quantitatively and computationally. Put simply: I scraped a lot of data from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele ... time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as ... , poured rum over the icing of one of the cakes, and set it on fire. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three ... , one of the first cities to open up to foreign investment in the 1980s ... buses. And then there are the electric motorbikes… lots of cities have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  smarter instead of harder, and a display of being a resourceful student. The ... whole, maybe plan a few, and keep the rest that you want to try out in ... assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  everything!" But since I am now twenty years old and mature, the whole point of ... to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015 ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone ... apparently the class of 1999 was the first to have the Hacker's Map on the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  concepts through Scratch labs and spend the rest of the program making their ... Consulting Group. This was kind of out of the ordinary for me and by far the ... ourselves, got some logistics out of the way, and played Broken Picturephone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a ... fear and dominance tape a foam sword to the wall and write "Flexcalibur ... pages of Cosmos and i felt so proud of myself that i played minecraft for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022