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  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  time to leave. The next week (last week) I was in New Mexico (more on ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m the new 8.012 tutor! blah blah blah

  

  Come to my "office hours"! LOL  

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  two comically oversized suitcases down dorm row to MacGregor, but on the ... pretty tan! How was your summer? me: Good. I went to the beach. pgf: Oh ... you're supposed to ask them how about their summer. Unfortunately, as is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as ... volunteer/service opportunities. on thursday night, i also went to the class ... weird adjusting to a new dorm culture as a senior, particularly because

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  Center and got to look out on the entire city: Fenway Park I love ... ready to go to Germany (more on that later :D ) ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... bags and took a very sketchy cab ride* to the airport. I made a quick

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  time to relax, to enjoy your dwindling time with high school friends, to ... you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to ... consideration is November 6th. So take time to breathe, but keep your wits about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... “adoption” in my company’s Slack. And I’m pleased to say they’ve all found new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  environment and make sure it can talk to the other devices on that network. This ... network, it would send messages to everything on that network and tell them ... Internet, unable to reach their new trusted gateway, reverted back to their

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  on the green line at Fenway but am I supposed to? What's the best ... my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I ... my shock when I began college and discovered many new, unfamiliar

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  so hard to remember that "you do not have to walk on your knees for a ... an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... chance to start reading again, and to reflect on the semester which had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  or stressed to work on anything but your psets. Here are some truths ... stopped saying, “You can do everything you put your mind to!” and instead ... , and must learn to manage your time. Everyone has certain doors, though

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them ... There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... one on my flight back to Boston. So I wasn't too surprised when, just ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  question. Was MIT asking me to trauma dump? Then, I refocused on the second ... *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure together, happy to have tried something new and knowing 7/11 would always be

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company ... ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... (and more challenging), here are some rules I try to impose on myself

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Series is going on outside your window. 6. Old North Church At the Old ... like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006