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• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the ... redacted] Audrey: oh wait we probably shouldn't put that on the Internet ... sounded like "step on me"? Angela: Is that any better? Audrey: sure. so we

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  'll do so-and-so things. that was the only thing that pushed me on. it was ... after i turned seventeen. it happened on this very night, four years ago ... a part of your life anymore, sitting on your shoulder and whispering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the Internet with meme classics like Nyan Cat and Gangnam Style. Memes play a vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  information section on the self-reported coursework page to provide additional
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  want to be; more on the method to the madness, later, probably

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  "] my laptop looks like it's floating, but really it's sitting on top of a ... myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to ... really I might have been fine either way. And do we keep on doing this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids ... would pick me up on the other side. Of course, I'm a worrier, and I got ... do when on a finite-length trip. We found (after much difficulty) the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  this assignment process, and most first years won't be on campus this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  which I ended up submitting a total of 26 regrade requests on questions ... : Request: Hi, I'm writing to request a regrade on Problem 1.2. I got points ... largest was 20. Of course, 2.2 points on an exam is worth a lot more to the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  as we all focus on this murder, there is another happening, and another ... . For every death that blows up on the internet there is someone being ... too many questions.” These people will never blow up on the internet

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , departments, administration, and admissions office have worked tirelessly on ... on school nights, or having a constant stream of group chat messages ... hours to compose. I couldn’t join the group chats, I could barely talk on

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  write about, reflecting on things I've learned and things that are still ... , which was for Admissions Counselor for Web Communications, to work on the ... -Hazen who got a 35 on her ACT but was afraid of applying to a school so far

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  went on walks with our mom every night! Okay fine, almost every night

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will ... like two and two-halves puzzle hunts -been put on MANY MANY mailing lists ... culture but man, it’s got nothing on MIT) -made plans, changed plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  , I hope that you can do that too." i don't sleep with my grad rat on ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be ... do on a day to day basis: try to make the world suck a little less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  Experiment group (STrIDE). Using the same technology that's found on autonomous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  remarked on my bright red hair. It’s noticeable. Not in Davis Square though ... class of 30? 40? When I visit MIT and sit in on a similar math class ... ’t tell me this. I still don’t get credit. … we’re having discussions on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  shut them down?" "What about black-on-black crime?" "Do you hate the ... extremely well on his cross country team, and has demonstrated above average ... that remained on his head. My girlfriend and I, the only African

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  correct interpretation, and interact with everyone on a first-name basis ... those at Harvard or Wellesley. Sometimes, it’s good to leave. Still, on ... /moving all-nighter on my last day at MIT, I went on an early search for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016