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• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  agreement that makes me promise that she'll be the one to pick out my wedding ... , differences in pressure need to physically make sense. Magical. My notes for the ... the Jupiter String Quartet concert. (It's a good way to make money AND

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  anything else that you need to make your decision -- please let us know your ... ). Take as much time as you need to make your decision (and if we can help ... make your CPW experience as good as possible. Finally, please complete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , USA). Be sure to include your full name and date of birth ... can i get into MIT" My best advice to all of you is to read this website ... mates. To find out who your interviewer is, log on to MyMIT (if you are a

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

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... internship, or come back to school with valuable industry experience if I did. Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in

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

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  only kind of fulfillment. Making sure I've enough energy to have deep ... makes you content.”   I’m learning to build my life bit by bit and ... , I want you to give your voice a chance. It deserves to be nourished

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... the spot next to me, so now I have company :) 12:50pm - I lied about ... to whatever object you're watching move around. And that clock is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  to the lines that connected to it first. The bend of your leg changes ... strokes can make massive changes to a picture. conclusion I learned a lot of ... the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  .  Sometimes, people send me: Links to fun websites or videos, "since you're ... your essays and only then do they decide to interview you. So what i ... hear that you're so enthusiastic about MIT, but it's always alarming to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  , Senior Lecturer Peter Dourmashkin puts forth extra time and effort to make ... Google Earth Elevations we figured there had to be a better way ... taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... Displays of Science Regardless of what display you’re using to read this blog ... synonymous with “we needed a science word to make our thing sound more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  and the idea is that you’re just supposed to follow your stream of ... arrange words in an order that makes sense i don’t have to. and i think ... work with you’re forced to be more particular about each one i think i

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  audience, he managed to make the talk extremely personal, intimate, and ... I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  ? no, that doesn't make sense either. to me, right now, mit feels little ... . maybe we're all floating stories about home to make us feel better. it can ... part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until Monday, but until then, have an awesome weekend! Are we going to win

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  In my email this morning: The Howe & Ser Moving Company cordially invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... prepared to take back their cannon. Although we're sad to see it go, we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  very beneficial to helping the committee understand your experience and ... . If your application is deferred, we will want to see your mid-year grades. Your school yould sent them to us as soon as possible, as we begin

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it ... Studies, visited the class to show everyone how to make a German apple cake ... and used Google Maps to go on a 'virtual scavenger hunt' around those

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  witch hats and cats in the storefronts. We never did make it to the ... ’t want to make it seem like I did not enjoy the Salem trip. It was romantic ... ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped ... ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  Institute. I could reach for many generalities here, like we`re trying to make ... of the future. I`ll be sure to make time to slow down, but being ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011