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  applications. One exercise is that we will discuss the same three folders that we ... of Chicago. This is a school serious about its academics. Check out the ... inspired by super-huge mustard." Also, Chicago is one of my absolute favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  note="ice cream is so meh why wouldn't you eat a cookie instead ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... a foundational part of human nature, and their significance is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  wonder: is this who I am? Sometimes an old woman says that life is like a ... would probably never come back to again, if there is one to come back to ... suddenly the void is yours to cut through like a block of stone waiting to be

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... , instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... bad. tick Nothing feels right; everything feels wrong. tick MIT is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to ... about what is computable in general. What types of problems have solutions ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  . 09:55. one of the nice things about living in east campus is that all ... is the lecture for 6.UAT oral communication. this is an unusual class because this is one out of only two in-person lectures, the other one being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed ... expiring, so here I am. Per my previous post: the November Rule is ... , anybody who is sexually active (and anybody who would like to come to MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... detailed. But that being said, we’re still all a little different--which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  will respect their time. So whether your application deadline is only ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job description, nor is it in Matt's. It's something we do in our spare time because

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... find that this is even more so the case for people whose parents had ... my own profession, robotics. What is Robotics? ‘Robot’ is, when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT ... the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three ... " here (Prof. Flowers is the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  -done list! Expected — Weather This is the one that everyone from [insert ... 'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... reference, here’s some [annotation note="even the weather app is like ‘‘it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  , in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... convince ourselves that not making the effort to socialize is our best bet ... tell) are pretty friendly. House 4 certainly is! They were very open and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  score is high and you are a good writer so you will probably be fine.” Man ... some of it is helpful. Read this first. Okay. Here we go. My essays ... remains under your control is your essays. What’s important in an essay

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Part 1 here. *     *     * Rush Holt is in the room, but most ... speech. And now that the Congressman is physically in the room, the ... Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely ... is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist ... 't MIT prepare students well in the science curriculum? The answer is yes ... America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  PREMISES 1. This is an OPINION post. Not a suggestion post. I'm not ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... life and fraternal life is so different that I don't think it would be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008