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  Answering your questions

  

  freshmen are supposed to show up by Saturday so that things can get started ... . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... your blog so I was just wondering what your major is and why you chose to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... likelihood, helped convinced about 15% of our class to matriculate by various ... ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you're

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... , Raymond had to get a hold of a fully automated, fully electronic nerf gun ... were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge ... Take a day trip to New York Attend ring premiere and ring delivery Get my class ring Take a nap in the New House courtyard Take a nap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Frank Sinatra in New York, New York: these vagabond shoes were longing to ... good way to expose yourself to different teaching styles, get off campus ... Harvard Bridge is pretty harsh, so the buses and trains are the way to get

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  undergrads. Basically, it gives you a vertical timeline to plan out your ... , but I was lucky enough to get a position as a contractor at Facebook ... dream to get to help with this this summer, and I'm so glad it's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  can not only get by here but also really thrive. Most everyone comes to ... your schedule, since 1) you have to allow time to get to the other school ... make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... and phone line closures orchestrated by the government to control the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  can i get into MIT" My best advice to all of you is to read this website ... to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , USA). Be sure to include your full name and date of birth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... to sleep, and continued labeling videos the next day. With each new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  looked like. We can't include the code for the function we used to get ... could get from this data set, we decided it would be cool to pick certain ... we filtered the data to get all the variations of "aahhhh." To get all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  sort. But if you're going to Portland for a day, forget all that ... end. Your mission is to hold the rope with one hand, letting the ball ... -Knot's (plush, not rubber), so when your children decide to start smacking each

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must ... has affected our view on leadership. For your reference, Joe starts ... The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  chance to see what different places have to offer can open your mind to new ... nice to learn what it means to earn your own money. 5. Get an internship ... suggestions of things that you could do with your time this summer. From me to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... teammates about whatever I couldn’t figure out on my own. I started to get ... our QA team to integrate my code into our project. By the end of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  and launched our website and our annual CTF puzzles and managed to get ... incentive to bobble around and meet new people, especially if you’re still ... schoolers (called Blueprint, and if you’re a high-schooler you’re eligible to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... put into them (almost). I hear it gets even better as you go along--which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015