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  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... 't connect still do your best to talk about yourself and your interests. That ... for an applicant to warn me, 'ok, you'll recognize me by my pink hair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  drawing concept art. Yeah… I guess I get inspired pretty intensely by media ... independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and ... . Time Keepers, a board game in which you’re trying to restore major events

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... have no problem with this concept where everyone refers to classes by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  like trying to get a stray cat to come closer. sometimes your efforts and ... utter silence. but, hey, i get it. turning on your camera and talking ... questions, and answering the questions i did get to the best of my ability. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per ... cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... —but getting to read the likes "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  representative, right? Sure, nothing new there. Some folks prefer to put their ... glamorous, but people, if you know exactly what you want to do with your life ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails ... scenery BY ZIPLINE! Zipline is the way to travel, let me tell you. I even ... (it was hard to get a good picture, sorry) - basically, you clip into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... happy about it because, for like the first time, we get to take full ... 't have been able to learn by ourselves.  Besides being super useful and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of ... , too wiped to even get up to go to the bathroom, your mind wanders and ... , impose curfews, tell you to clean your room, do your homework, empty the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... would be to finish your applications way early to avoid all of the stress ... know you to write your letters of recommendation. You may even want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  also my one and only visit to the state. Get to know your professors ... feel that is cheating Show off your Boston sports pride ✅ I went to a ... Use your MIT ID to go to the MFA for free ✅ During the summer of my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... to inflict serious Hitchhock-esque damage to your person if you don ... . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  -story Gundam that moves and blinks its eyes, and then go get your ears cleaned by ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an ... accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... feel guilty about giving no time to my new hallmates. now that classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class ... honest. Your application will be read by a small committee made up of AOs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch ... days, is what I want to do after I graduate. Lillian: You're a senior ... existing code, and it was written by some person. Then I need to work on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... to the Student Center for Tech Twinkles, an event run by the the MIT ... (center)[/caption] I went to Thanksgiving II, a show by Roadkill Buffet

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018