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• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... i left boston to start my internship about 3 seconds ago. i talked to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: EX MACHINA SOUNDTRACK [caption id="attachment_45168" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Trying to say something that sounds ... working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i ... clothes i wore last night to see [annotation note="i won't give any spoilers

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... fact that I got to go home and rant to my parents every night. But I know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your help in making MITAdmissions better. tl;dr: this summer, we're going to ... the move from our old site that Ben built back in 2006 to this, the site

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... seems to have grown each year. This year, we had around 70 signups and we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to Comic Cons to walk down artist alleys and admire all the awesome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to ... know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? What attribute of your personality are you most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  to read and pronounce Middle English, writing pieces on radio astronomy for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace Observatory to look through telescopes and sketch constellations, learning about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events ... interested students were disappointed that they did not live close enough to Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... it, my mouth had stopped moving. It’s their turn now. I have to admit

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012