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• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  was definitely worth blogging. Before I get back to packing, I have two ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... MIT feels like home, I'm definitely looking forward to going back

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the ... quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  's application, no matter how strong, isn't enough to get one accepted. We deferred ... numbers to us, you are human beings. So when I see your names, I think of ... you need to do to get into MIT." Sorry if I confused anyone! -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  listening to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, but ... . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  powder. It felt more like getting punched in the face by a pineapple, but ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... -themed menu complemented by a spasm of last-minute surprises: stir, simmer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  , there were a zillion other events that I'm still sad I didn't get to go to ... to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to ... education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  unable to finish the project in time. It'll definitely be done by our party ... " posters, which were made to publicize a documentary about MIT made by two ... a time before the call time to get their drinks. We tracked drinks

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  honestly so very cool when I get to use it in contexts that are actually ... before 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming). They're trying to get rid of ... .009 rewarded past experience and punished new students by moving the class at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP ... -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... people when we read their applications. We imagine them coming to MIT, finding their niche, doing wonderful things - sometimes we even start to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT, and sometimes go to trivia together, and eat each other's nachos: my ... any dance background, as evidenced by this video of us learning to dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  your Halloween vibe? No problem! Here are five costumes ideas that'll get ... get to go up to them and say, "Boy, that really was the bee's knees ... bananas on your head. Nothing can get better than that. Con: There are no

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... I got to know him well while working at MIT, he surprised me by being ... . They say never meet your heroes, but I am here to tell you that Woodie is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019