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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually ... this thing before? It's called the NFPA 704. It's used to indicate ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it ... to use those spaces to share more. ... On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The ... the process. It really was a great opportunity for my family to ... ." That kind of intense emotional connection can make it especially

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my ... many questions that come with it. So, without further ado, I present to ... worth it? Should I even attempt to double major? Should I make space to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... only grades and not narrative text if you can help it. For example, it is ... "Spring semester;" it will be, in many cases, better to leave it blank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and ... recommended for this class, and since I was very used to Solidworks and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  our experiences at MIT. It was amazing to chat with the students about ... process (it’s hard to do!) and how to showcase strengths such as resilience ... used what they learned over the past two days to navigate campus more

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage ... uses to send calls for help My message: Then, I biked over to MIT ... maker space) and used the calipers to measure the buckle of my display

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... product, and proceed to spend every waking hour of their lives (it seems) working on it, hoping to have the full, finished, working (!) prototype done

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  -bogglingly stressful. It’s significantly harder to convince someone to do something ... ’t be so quick to write things off if you think you might be interested ... you to stay — and be straight up with them about it. Don

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  time when I ever have free time to use as I please. Right now, there ... had enough time to learn it on my own. I still haven't gotten around to ... the (very few) songs I used to know. RIP. DO THINGS IN BOSTON Escape

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  results. It's really great if you can come into MIT and take sophomore ... --however, remember that you're going to be taking it with mostly sophomores (and ... you don't need to take. So, here's how it goes. Physics: The GIRs are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... scenario, even if it looks aesthetically awkward to reorganize my sentence around it. Sometimes the best solution is to just dodge the problem

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  anyone can do - is try to put themselves in new, occasionally uncomfortable, situations, and try to take what you can from them. That's probably one of the ... Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  experience at MIT, but it seems to me that you can find pretty much every type ... things going on but it would be cool to hear people's thoughts about the ... , I made it to Burton-Conner (Mitra's dorm), another place I really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a ... MIT it's actually psychologically impossible for me to turn down ... of "Somebody to Love" by Queen, and it's a song that you could adapt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  even just showing me how to use the dishwasher. I think overall it ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move ... didn't register it was a dorm on the MIT Guide to Residence page and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... year to year: freshman year it’s learning, sophomore year it’s preparing ... completely different location, this was a great experience for me since it can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015