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• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  preference to no longer be emailed by us (by marking messages as spam, by ... up-to-date. Usually we do this by deleting and remaking lists. However ... was your age I applied to ten colleges. Eight of them were elite liberal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  !"]Red Line.[/annotation] If you go, try to get there more than 15 minutes early ... ; it's super nice to see Boston by water. [caption id="attachment_55369 ... by a truck constantly so people have to wave at me wherever I go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene ... to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... -negotiated one of them to start in the spring. By late June, I had finalized my ... was only able to find a job and housing by making lots of negative

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new ... Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and ... and a friend as years went by. Freshman year was a shitshow. I could

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  upperclassman. You're seen as someone who's supposed to have it together. Truth is ... same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  've personally found myself a lot less inclined to go out and get a quick coffee ... guilty no matter how little or big the purchase. Still, if you're able to ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... perfectly normal thing to do when writing a novel. Little by little, I ... feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because ... , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... contamination of critical water sources. By providing the means to basic hygiene ... fun. We get to spray each other with water while prototyping our pump

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that ... social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  40. In lighter news, by this I mean I'm going to talk about things ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early ... .) You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Regular Action ... matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... part of the neck out in order to “deflate” your puffy marshmallow self

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing ... practice your conversational skills by telling you to describing your family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Chris Peterson "Damn you for being so inspiring, you're going to get me ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013