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• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to ... circles on campus, you may become known by your username, so choose wisely ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When ... 's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  isn't getting bigger, then for your life to improve you have to take it ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you're

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my ... land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  occasion to get paid just to sit back and have fun, so I definitely seized the opportunity. I had to leave early to get to campus to film the ... all different majors have gone on to become associate consultants and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  problems and allow me to load new songs on the fly. This was indeed the ... idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many ... .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit sad. You’re going to miss your family. And your friends. And home cooked

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  help you get a new perspective on the application process. I don't expect ... relevant on your application, but take extra care to emphasize the aspects of ... , on college applications, you're supposed to brag about yourself without

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . For me, getting on the airplane early just means having to sit on the ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... day (on a free ticket though – redeemed through my miles). I had to go

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get ... drop more blocks on your opponent's screen. It looks something like this ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  . It’s always neat to explain your work to people who know so much more ... to your professors while surrounded by burbling chocolate fountains and ... to hang out with students on a Saturday night! I think it says volumes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... (Political Science) in order to focus on public policy, the game was won ... . I’d sworn to stick to math. Cannot imagine why. It took a while to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making ... optimized. Sometimes, things happen that are meant to make your story

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... socially at your own pace. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I called ... my friends and I played, or trips to Boston Burger Company I went on

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  classes use MITx to post course content, like lecture videos, gradebooks ... , if you can manage to share your misery with enough friends at the same ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  room at absolutely no cost. According to the MIT List center’s website ... . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... ! (hopefully).   If you win the lottery, you get to go back to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  you're not going to get as much out of something you join strictly to ... undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to ... , although that gradually decreased as the semester went on. I made sure to go ... , I am failing. I regret that I did not just focus on studying 6-3 to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  place to hide and c) get out of New York altogether. But your character ... in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills ... -aged politician who is in New York City on a campaign tour when Godzilla attacks. As

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008