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  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  other things full of ideas that tend to keep me up thinking. Few ... breathtakingly well written and fun to read. His Ethical Visions of Copyright Law ... competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every ... little funny in hindsight how crass some of them turned out to be (usually ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... was actively a part of or just conversations i was listening to, part of ... some sense. to the second part of her comment, i think i am generally

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  make it through to the very end. My mid-lecture anxiety attacks of ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I ... to hear again. So in honor of my last first day at MIT, here are some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  the vast emptiness of space. But when I return to stardust, I wish to ... I sit upon this couch in stasis, with many better things to do ... cacophony to any other, yet to me they are the song that tells me I am home

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... but one of my recommenders wants to see my essays to help write his ... . To be done ASAP, as I only have one other pair of shoes. Time estimate

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  long period of time forgoing sleep and sometimes other necessities to ... tales of back to back exams or days filled with essays, psets, and lab ... break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just ... excuse to let go of the process a little bit. You've done everything you ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual ... of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... -MIT/Boston-specific ("Go to a formal"). I've never understood the attraction of formals ... to make a shorter list of my own, of things to do before you graduate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  reviews make it out to be. only 2% of reviews were 1 star so i lost the rng ... words to say always seemed to stay Just out of reach reset day ( /rēˈset ... out of reach My reset day was supposed to be last Friday; I had 2 psets

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... ? Today was "Bring Your Audience to Work Day," definitely one of the more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to ... ;       A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the ... small but necessary acts of self-care. So here is something to help you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... office, but finally got around to it a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, Ben ... Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... or unthinkable (like teaching Latin to orphan children, or something of ... ordeal was over. (The same will happen to most of you!) Things aren

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious ... -less frosh and rise over four years of undergraduatehood to become masters of ... . And of course, there's his unicycle, which he now uses to travel to work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... of work. Poems are a great way to try out new ideas, or condense

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• 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