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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  take out the descriptions and cut it down to one or two pages?" We use ... showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to ... maximum principle is that it operates independently of the specifics of the ... it care more about, to be more effective? To see this, let’s consider

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• 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 ... wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that ... happened to be holding its awards ceremony right next door, so I’d go into

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

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  the app. It was, needless to say, super cool. Unfortunately, our app ... inside perspective on what it looks like to work as part of a software team ... to use git—which in itself would have justified the summer. I learned a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  like VS Code or Google Docs, we'd tell him to do it tomorrow. It came to ... , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two ... there was a couch, so we'd fit. It costs $5500 per month. "Beggars can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  want to write to finally put my social science skills to good use. My ... to bankrupt last winter after it hosted a $35,000 per plate fundraiser ... -purposefully buy extra clothing for a reason to go downtown (to return it). Results

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  think I have a fictional character crush on Piz. I can’t help it, he ... season is starting! I don’t know for sure, but I’d say you can expect to ... ]hould I [s]ign the part on top where it [s]ay[s] I waive the right to review

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  given it, but to my surprise it was ready for me when I got there. You ... also used for card access to various labs, lounges, and buildings. My ID ... can swim, jump, shoot, or do whatever sport it is you do. Other than

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  , they’ve collectively forgotten that there are other people using it. You ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times ... finishes a run as an 86 at Sullivan Station, but then needs to start its next

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony. Clicking the Compose button links you to a page where you can record a piece using the piano keyboard. You can mess with the song’s key, time signature

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  alarm had gone off, I'm not sure I would have responded to it.) I did set an alarm before going to bed. I even plugged my phone into its charger ... . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  , departments, resources and culture. It turns out where you live can strongly ... Independent Living Groups)--a decent attempt at trying to understand what living ... mallet normally used to demolish things! 16:47 - 18:17 How to Not

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that ... time to appreciate it—I miss my town's annual Winter celebration, the ... A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  assistance and personnel to IT infrastructure and training. We would like to ... Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last ... Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities ... Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance ... about it (I will talk more about this later); it’s one way for us to get to know you. Though the interview is optional, it is a great chance not

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  effective."]ground.[/annotation] So maybe it would be useful to, I dunno ... ’d actually want to use it in a fight without worrying that I’d lose my balance ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  essay?!? Oh man, you have to complete it so quickly. You kept putting it ... ’re supposed to be working, we’re doing the work. I can figure it out… I think ... : Maybe, but there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re doomed to hate our

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  recommend a STEM education to anyone who can stomach it, since my classmates ... life. I found it somehow unacceptable to just be a normal person who uses ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025