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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  . I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is ... . So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen-year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a ... GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to ... boring for you after the AP test. Biology: There is one GIR, 7.01x

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  is going on in there, and it's currently completely empty.) Then today ... . The thing about sphygmomanometers is that they have an awfully long name ... off for no reason. =) A sphygmomanometer is the device you use to take a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at ... get on the bad graces of the janitorial staff. WATE is perhaps the only ... separate versions of it. "Poo-wate" is played on instruments, "S'weight" is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about ... evolution of media. As it is a writing class, there are about two essays due

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my ... REX is over and you've visited all the floors and ranked them according ... assumed, "EC" is short for East Campus.) REX is a period during which new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic ... intramural soccer, which is nice since I used to play soccer pretty regularly ... feel that is cheating Show off your Boston sports pride ✅ I went to a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  short essay, and I’m not even halfway done with. Now this is just an ... 's the point?" "The point is to make money." Rest assured that purchasing a house is not part of the basics of college. The first time I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... to help me choose. Huzzah! This is an exercise in what it's like to be ... : Okay before you judge me I just think chemistry is interesting but maybe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... Random Hall family is being abruptly replaced by strangers who still trip ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... students ethics; but nothing is more powerful than when they lead by example

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... our projects last week, and this recitation is about how to turn those ... through the wringer. the blue light coating is peeled and scratched, the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no ... house, in a giant room with bunk beds like at a summer camp. It is kept

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... more conceptual questions. The bulk of my lab work is typically completed ... Science! This is an introductory discrete math course: so far, we’ve gone

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  perfection. If you think about it, the CPU inside your computer is basically ... post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three ... Suddenly she is in a magical, technicolour world Last week, MIT’s Professor

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  think MIT has worn out of me is empathy. I won’t say that I was always ... around you is one of the most important parts of making this school ... that the two are hardly correlated at all. The truth, it seems, is that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... is for high achieving high school students from rural schools, the two ... college courses as high school students. Landers is now a graduate of Paris

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge, Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  Hey, it's been awhile since I've written here. Activation energy is ... journal. Being in the public is a vulnerable act. My situations made me ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025