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Blog / Miscellaneous
Happy Pi Day! 3.1415926535...
you want to impress your friends. Oh Number Pi Oh, number Pi Oh, number Pi Your digits are unending, Oh, number Pi Oh, number Pi No pattern ... Just a little humor to keep us all smiling. HAPPY PI DAY (the -
Blog / Academics & Research
No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…
happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on ... So this is what an Add/Drop form looks like: Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "But Laura, even though you haven't written in -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I’m waiting for my green card?
All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you're considered an international applicant if you're not a United States citizen or -
Blog / Admissions
The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.
(...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
A Day at Stanford University wait, what?
worry about getting run down by bicyclists who are, as far as I can tell ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing
went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an ... simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see -
Blog / Hacks
Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs
to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day -
Blog / Events
One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…
had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where ... practices. Finally, we need to combat problems like obesity by examining a ... added this to my “10 reasons why I love MIT”: the lectures! We get to hear -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger
, “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door. OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Different Kind of Learning
. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... considered. I have to get back to my readings, but hello from Detroit, and ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything -
Blog / MIT Life
Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.
you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :) ... in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of -
Blog / About Decisions
Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.
at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story -
Blog / Admissions
The Real Deal no impostors here
deceit, and they're in over their heads. The key to getting past it ... , but your fellow students and brilliant faculty are there to provide some ... . Keep your head out of the clouds - but don't be afraid to hold it high. -
Blog / Life after MIT
Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]
—and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize -
Blog / MIT Life
back in east campus jiggity jig
i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... slightly less smooth than last time, because i had to carry boxes up three stairs rather than down three stairs, but it was fine. piece by piece -
Blog / MIT Life
Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC
To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower -
Blog / Residential Life
back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)
. thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get -
Blog / Academics & Research
a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!
swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... 's applied to real-world problems. also, we get free dinner before every -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT
had to be screened by three different people when I went to check in for ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack