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• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  real way to know if I would like being a graduate student. Because as a ... [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  , there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do ... addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release ... much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... might be interesting to play a little game: THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHOTO ... , and originality. Open to everyone, do it by yourself, do it with others

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  him and his family to watch the game. On my way to meet them, I passed ... on the metro, but didn't take it all the way home. That would be silly ... to make their way to Plaza de la Cibeles, where the real party would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are ... + classes), or else you're considered to be taking a light load. ... all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  notes from all my classes, doodles from any TTRPGs I happen to be playing ... different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... happened, but they’re good enough to be helpful for psets and test review

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  quick vacation to celebrate the new year (and then starting the regular ... students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you ... to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  switched to soprano, and have been singing at pitches only heard by canines ... sessions that I'll be going to over the next month, and then I get to take ... be very well-fed. I'd like to participate in, but not sure if I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  thought it'd be fun to put together a study vlog captured during a recent ... Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... reading the textbooks I got for my birthday. By the way, I turned eighteen

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  everywhere in NOLA, from the decadent parade floats that seem to be a year ... vitality and very special way of life, and many of us are hoping to come back ... [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  advice would be to not sweat the small stuff. Everything will work out ... and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On ... mail documents to us. All letters must be typed or written on official

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  endurance running, they offer ways to negotiate progress without being solely ... tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the ... can be stated as follows: there is often a tendency to see technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  plastic bags and enthusiasm. It was like we had found a way to bottle the ... hung from branches, channeling our inner three-toed sloths. Along the way ... and we headed back to the buses, sad to be leaving the crimson yellow

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  everything I wanted to be, but everything I wished I could find around me as I ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... arrived at MIT with the raw materials I needed to be an adult -- maturity

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  throughout the greater Zürich area. I got really lucky to be placed in one just ... great semester, and to Floor 1 for being the best floor too! https://youtu.be ... abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  , burdened as they may be by a brobdingnagian backpack. See, sometimes, what ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... by semester two (or once you become a sophomore the regular way), that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  odds being: 1/12+1/6(1/12+1/6(1/12+......)) all the way to infinity ... Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009