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  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for ... dining understanding (that's a story for a later entry, or for Laura to ... know about dining (for now!). There are six main options for getting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  choose your courses for frosh year =p) Again, this is only my ... in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  underwater; I've been helping my friend edit his personal statements for grad ... progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for ... search for transiting exoplanets pushes CCD instrumentation to its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... a time (I think my mom got me Word-A-Day for my senior year as well ... the message. 4. As a last resort, go for the EBE's eyes - you will not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  Hindi course (though Mandarin is up next for me). hedwig asked, "i was ... email was filed by the email staff. As for the interview, we do not assume ... . andrew wrote, "Would you say that March 15 is a reasonable estimate [for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... time, and partly because hate was an outlet for how trapped we sometimes ... loved to hate the dining hall because every day we had rice for either

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  only one semester and Ben’s done it for years. He obviously has been ... team performs at MIT events and at venues for the Boston Ukrainian ... ; Our Dance Journeys (Color-coded orange for Ankita and purple for Ben

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics. If ... many places in the world. As for the SATs, you may do either -- either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  comments section of this post and ask any questions you might have for us ... going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... be about MIT, or how our days have been, what we ate for breakfast, etc

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school, and who I continued to use (and drop) for the next five years. The hall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  Kicad from [annotation note="Electronics for Mechanical Systems II"]2 ... the LEDs, and of course a bunch of LEDs. For this project, Kicad's built in library already included all of the symbols for the components that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  search for truth or objective reality or illusion or whatever. two ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... traditional Brazilian music arranged for the wind ensemble by some Swiss music

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  replace all k sounds with t sounds but that didn’t last long for obvious ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... to [annotation note="For context, Next House freshmen room assignment

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... -name internship for my first-year summer was attainable (it wasn't), then that was ... goals for sophomore fall.   Do Laundry More Often  I had a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021