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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  frustration on my notes. When MIT websites don't work You ever hate it when ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... of the hallway during rush hour.   When the MBTA bus finally

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... , it means: Meh, was a busy month; definitely first week of February. On ... a new year bore any true meaning or was just a new page on a wall

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... in on her with this sort of cock-eyed, confused look.   She didn ... climb I fear I'm bound to drown on the Firehose of life  Let alone the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... density of manmade reservoirs; however, there is limited research on how ... down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  spoil the location of them all! If you're on campus, see if you can find ... Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, at the University of ... There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic ... . You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... versions of the sign on top of the pictures to see what people thought ... arrangements of the wording we could make on different-sized acrylic sheets that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  ="Independent Activities Period"]IAP,[/annotation] I took 68 units on top of a 12 unit class ... while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  , have one bit of foresight that prevented me from fully going ham on that ... specifics of living on campus were not updated until WAY after the FAQ ... through the Infinite, on Killian Court, and in front of Stata remind me that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  freshmen beating themselves up on every sun-swept corner of campus. Perhaps ... first round of tests on the undumped-upon freshmen. It's been a rough week ... tries to cling on to the crumbling remnants of their high school success

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for ... community of friends behind. I plan on going back to Panama this year. We are ... . From the beginning of the project until my time came to move on from MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  kids stuffed in a New Vassar study room, being on campus during my first ... New Media (21W.035) → Rank B This was a specific type of class called a ... build a product with the sole purpose of helping others. Comments on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  once I watched Inside, Bo Burnham's new special on Netflix. I've written ... effect on my life, so it's no surprise that I spiraled into a disarray of ... with strangers on the Internet under some excuse of building relatability

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  fast and slow and fast and slow at parts, involves some amount of ... watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts and streamed random things until we got tired and slept. That night, people shared some of their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... be smart and organized, and on most days, I kind of make a vague ... and physics exams was new and horrifying. Worst of all, I could just

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  grade to a B on the condition that I get a B or higher by the end of the ... makes for kind of a stressful environment. - U. V. asked, Any tips on ... . I wrote back, It really depends on the version of the freshman class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  magnets on the back of the skirt. The fabric revealed on the inside of the ... headed on over to the Project Runway website to check out Ms. Eng's bio ... Florida Teachers Council of Mathematics Annual Conference on the use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Things are actually pretty calm here in New England, even with the ... applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , Pennsylvania, and New York; about 15 applications so far today, all said. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  Boston on 9/1, I didn't anything to sleep on. A combination of friends ... have to."]3 hours of classes[/annotation] on Tuesday were. My ... of me on these blogs; naturally, sharing the worries and stressy and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 4.3% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010