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  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  prestigious MIT PE programs, you might be aware of something called a Pirate Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you ... actually says GPRs.), but also I took a SCUBA class. I'm like an advanced

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  -California border. A restless curiosity sheltered by walls of mountains gave birth to ... It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... getaways. I'm also my own best friend; I am a daydreamer. A surefire way to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful ... have my allegiance." C3PO: "To a splendid counterpart!" R2D2: "You can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... underneath. I pay little attention to this because I am certain that a bone ... , check. Ability to make R2D2 whirring noises and generate smoke by friction

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if you’re not the punter. My name is Lucy and I’m a junior ... amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it ... some of your thoughts and feelings with your peers, to show a spirit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and manipulate a lot of equations, so I tried to color code the variables to ... imaginable- brush pens, washi tape, wax stamps, glitter pens, you get the gist

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other posts include the ones by Lydia K. '14 and Anna H. '14.  One thing that I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... pull you down just like a sinking shipFloating is getting harderBut tread

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I ... so) to share insight and perspective from a variety of experiences ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was ... . I went through a lot (seriously, A LOT) of stress to get here, but at ... so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn ... . Most people around campus know Glenn, by sight if not always by name, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... showed precocious signs of a furious ambition to eat everything ever ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  -Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the ... intriguing is the roles previously played by the two speakers. Prince Turki

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  them personally to your house - you get the point. However, following ... officers have tried to mix in healthy snack choices (radishes or carrots) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... . Budget cuts around the country may be forcing a lot of colleges to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009