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  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  best way to learn about MIT, we humbly submit, is our website ... , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  Cormick, but naïve-first-year-me decided to dig deeper. I sent out a Google form ... year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and ... want to say is that the memories I discuss are simply the ones that have

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  still have a lot of trouble with this. Every few weeks, I force myself to ... , despite having bleached it myself repeatedly!). I forgot to bring my book along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  never forces Finn and Flame Princess to get back together again. Instead ... monsters. I don't really have the words to describe what this show means to ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with ... 't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... . Well, I started to, but every post inevitably ended with a positive ... 't equipped to deal with that many support services. I knew it was best to go on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  birthday celebration. Alumni and community from all over are making trips to Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our ... months now to gather all the history and artifacts they can muster to make

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . The first time I visited the MIT Admissions website to look at the ... -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were ... ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power has been devoted to “psets” and “midterms” and not Silly Girl Time, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  good at it, but most don’t like it, because they’re forced to memorize ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2 ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  forced to watch this in the summers because THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO WATCH ... Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons ... countdowns. 4. I've been meaning to write a post like this since the big TV

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  Ohio. 2. Pop vs. soda website. Also a story: When I came to MIT as a ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  question. it is forcing one to make judgments about oneself, to explicitly ... — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... decided to give myself exactly one (1) hour to write this blog. we are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  was now known as DTYD, returned to MIT in full force. DTYD III featured ... manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything is going to hell. [caption id="attachment_51263" align

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020