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  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  , because it was run by Laura Staurt, who I've mentioned once before. Her ... if you've ever read it. Besides, sci-fi isn't an insult, so relax ... . (Except for EC's. Theirs is kind of different.) OK, so you've visited a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  hacks? I've heard about the MIT balloon popping up at half-time during the ... mainstream culture. If you've heard of hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  , "Regarding the teacher evaluation, I've rarely had the same teacher for more ... -- the vast majority of students admitted to MIT come from schools we've ... the TOEFL as soon as possible. nina wrote, "I've posted a question, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  case, we weren't that lucky, but we've been to Dim Sum enough to know ... jackets you've ever seen? Some other people also found fulfillment at ... , having your hand pinched off or something. I've always been afraid of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  dreams of what lied beyond, and I guess you could say I've happily embraced ... , and from the age of thirteen, I've more or less been by myself all day ... exercising any advanced placement opportunity for the fall semester classes. I've

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  de," which I've heard many times but never exactly understood. My ... officer?" I've written before that we're not looking for perfection. One ... admissions, medical school transcript evaluations aren't done in a vacuum. I've

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than ... application the thorough review it deserves. And, ultimately, we've found that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  undergraduates. Since it's so long, I've broken it up into sections: Monday ... incomplete. I've tried to pour every detail I can remember into it, but too ... or if I had enough dining dollars left for lunch. They've been replaced

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  up to you. As I've written before, we're not going to reject you ... supplement for the application packet?" As I've written, I think research ... the way that best fits for you. I've seen serious essays, funny essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat ... my camera roll taken in or around the DesignPlus space—I’ve stayed in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  , especially because it's obvious when you've made a really solid connection ... experimenting with the project. But when all is said and done, I've loved

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  down the 'new year' in the middle of March, because somehow we've all ... older sister to me, reflecting on how much we've seen each other grow

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the sun beating down your temples as you run up against it?  I've been ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  safety training I’ve done has been Stop Drop and Roll back in elementary ... much unnecessary stress, and I paid the price mentally. I’ve now promised

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  run everyday. I realized recently that I lack discipline. I've been ... realize...it's a tunnel. A tunnel for cars. But now I've gone too deep. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ?” Maybe it speaks to the morbid weirdo I was as a child, but I’ve never ... printed out and taped between the ceiling and the doorframe. I've never

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  really complicated! Once you've formalized these notions, how do you prove ... something, and I've gotten better at conveying ideas in a pretty

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art ... thoughts off of, as I’ve never been to a biennial or wide-ranging curated

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  space. I've written about 4-dimensional worms before (here and here), but ... a different (fourth) direction. Hopefully I've done a good enough job

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024