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• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and ... admit, I wanted to be an engineering major for at least an hour after the ... : Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Dropbox, Amazon… They’re all here, ready to talk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... 'm considering applying to be an RTA this summer, too! Along the same lines as CTD

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  // lifting the curtain off an artist’s life // being brave enough to face the ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... way too short // didn’t regret it // caught up with old friends

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer ... treadmill looks like.) This is the Porter Room. Back in the day it used to be ... floor, but there's no way to get from one to the other without going down

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  slavery; I would like that to be true, but I'm doubtful. The evolution of ... on the Enlightenment, we'll be in 1789, on the threshold to revolution ... fault for not doing the reading, and may be attributable to not knowing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  there will be many people along the way to help and mentor you. Along ... application numbers will be mostly similar to last year's. I'd expect that our ... 's along the way). PhDs in science can take anywhere from 3-10 years to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  ,” which refers to how relentless we are to goal, and how the only way we ... Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the ... 2399 on the SAT I, do I need to retake it?!?" :-) More on the Q

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  with being productive was a way to simultaneously be happy and satisfy ... the way to resolve the guilt and jealousy from not being like alternate ... wouldn’t be able to tell from this blog given that i tend to complain about

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to ... adequately describe the incredible sight of 20,000+ people on their way to ... [edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to learn more about making ... trapezoidal configuration such that a bird or butterfly will be able to move up ... more. 3:17 PM –  3:52 PM – The conveyor belt is turning out to be a lot

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  example: It is true that my beard appears to be growing only my neck, like ... , instantly, by its almost insurpassable beauty. Most are not brave enough to ... Novembeard can, in this way, be a burden, as few around you are of such refined

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... several ways: it's small, relatively far from MIT (I walked about an hour to ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  Action. (All of the MIT test requirements must be completed by November 30 ... . (All of the MIT test requirements must be completed by December 31 ... . At that time, there are three things that could happen: You could be
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... encouragement to other charity runners. I may hang out with my brother who will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  contents to be strewn across the table. (I apologize to all ... the way down, we wanted to stop at the restaurant (Top of the Needle ... it by asking all the recent MIT graduates to raise their hands, and of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... background to be really good, and I didn't have the body. A taller person could ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  reason to the ways of the post office. Again, I know this is very ... Services, just checked in via a comment and I thought it would be best to ... everything was going to be processed via first class mail. Unfortunately, the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005