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• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  's where they get you. (Tricked me again, life!) According to my mom, you ... in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  / : -verb to calm down; to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension ... as you right now. I'm about to submit the application to my top choice ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  get to comment on the subject at hand, EXCEPT for the Dalai Lama. The ... responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... multiplied the length of my last name by 11. His second e-mail read "Also, you're

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  together that much, since you really just needed to code your own solution ... the infinite, only to get ignored. In our next lab session, he asked me ... teammate was so shocked to find out that I have a twin that she wanted to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it, though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  .007? Leaving space in your schedule to pursue personal projects, such as through ... poster) 4.140 OR 2.008, not both — 4.140 is harder to get in to, harder ... want to get them out of the way.  Probably I will take 2.671 later, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those previous two things)! The other bloggers were kind enough to let me make ... if you're interested: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. But without

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to gain access to your...terrain. The next morning, Spencer dropped me ... to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... may laugh, but you'll laugh for a different reason if you're a student ... an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... encounters with your younger or older sibling. Yes, I really want to hear about all of the not-so-nice things that you did to your kid sister or brother

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... specifications for fruit... or break things apart to learn. Despite the fact

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  an online drop request to your advisor, your advisor approves it on ... apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  an equality, and here is that example: Take your set $A$ to be the set ... )\cdot (\text{inches}^2)\cdot (\text{inches}^2)]^\alpha.\] Hence, to get ... $. I.e., can you use integration (as opposed to discrete sums) to get rid

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our ... waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our ... waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  did not play my favorite song =[) Awesome, right? EDIT: I'm going to do an "answers to your questions" entry on Friday, so if you have any ... , when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  your QuestBridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but ... about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a Quest ... @mit.edu. After you email us, we will contact you about how to access our MIT Quest
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  classroom. I will probably never get anywhere close to Joshua Bell's fancy ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... watch MIT students perform, I get very emotional (or maybe it was the knee

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013