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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet ... .) and various sensors (accelerometers, capacitive sensing, etc.) to create ... encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my ... am. All that without going to one of "the top ten schools in the world ... songwriting competitions, and still - I have yet to make a cent of profit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  , once in mirror The glassy surface of the river reflects a portal to ... once rode my bike to the Square. And decided to walk the rest of the way, to see the homes and streets lined in the oceans of Fall. Pigeons

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  the other side of the columns are students waiting to cross the street ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  !”[/annotation] It’s like a lifelong game of iSpy. The ring is a great way to feel ... their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The ... dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  the recipes I used to keep myself sane over the past month and lots of ... about doing a ton of "science-oriented" extracurricular activites just to ... So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  and went to go sit down on one of the chairs to have a well-deserved sip ... euros worth of candy, and i intend for this to last me at least an entire ... because of the delays, i would have had to spend another night at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks ... relevant to my story. Saturday night, I was going to Rax '04's house because I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  swimmingly. In addition to our suites there are several others, one of which is ... Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  and I was determined to stay single (because I’m definitely capable of ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms ... spreads to all the other parts of our lives and the lives of the people we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to have some semblance of structure, I loosely based my ranking off of ... to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... , super high-level electronics class. At the end of the class, I got to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was ... at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... foundation. Ask any young Cantabridgian to expound on collagen, but s/he may

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... whenever i cry in front of her she kinda just looks at me like ...you good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data: over the past decade or so, the average number of deferred students later

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  , or taking videos of myself, or talking to a camera, or finding good ... Behold. I attempted to vlog. https://www ... around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  : It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012