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  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  of where you are on your spiritual journey, come and pose your hard ... 's just so hard to get through a whole book in a non-native language. It ... at asklaura at mit dot edu. I will reply to your email, but I can make

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not ... they put a ring on it :D" - My friend. (I was going to make the same joke

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... the Boston Public Gardens. There's more to see when there's not snow on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  ’m planning on a video blog for next time (try to contain your excitement). Post ... how hilarious you are. And your lecture notes are awesome. And your ... coolest lecture on mitosis I’d ever heard. How does the spindle apparatus

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... nuclear weapon is false and misinformed; how Iran's leadership is divided on whether or not to weaponize, though a military strike on Iran would almost

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... doctor uses to test your reflexes.  Over the years we've asked ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... . They are people who Harvard students hire to work on their dreams. I ... rest of your life"--is the condition of realizing how incomprehensibly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... now you’re learning something new, and that’s hard to do, but that doesn ... who could get paid to research pure math? At what point did I stop

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... Tube! So if you're bored, and you want to screw around with something kinda

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not confirmed your username and password at decisions.mit.edu yet, and you plan to ... website right now. On the off chance that you no longer remember your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... apply and when you receive your decision? We understand that not knowing the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  make every effort to include as many students as possible. 3. How does ... , it is necessary to pass a short playing exam on the literature at the ... lockers: Lockers are available on a first-come, first-served basis to

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready/not sleep deprived we were to run the 10-minute-walk to our bus stop to get ... -1.5 hour commute depending on traffic. After getting home and eating food, it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some ... This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our ... coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what you need to do ... This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  drinking your cat might lead to a furry mouth or a scratched face." "'Don ... matter how delicious it was." "When you first see your beautiful prom date ... private photo pop up on your computer screen during lecture but quickly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... out your pink picture grabber to grab pictures. Here are some of those ... was that they would get "Brained on a rock" (This is not changed for Up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe as a train that makes you feel like you’re on an airplane. Right now, I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  finish writing a script, and are about to plot your data in a way that you ... screenshot and e-mailed it to him. He was so amused that he put it on Facebook ... presentation on Poisson statistics, I got torn to shreds. Instead of defending

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012