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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... television in front of my treadmill. Sure, I lost a little by not hearing Alan ... escorted the lovely and incomparable Mitra to a dinner for Tau Beta Pi, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... took a big step back to 1923 (when Hubble discovered that there are in ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if ... the terminal with your 1000 lb bags to get water Check to see if any ... flight because you really want to buy these clothes Get a gate change

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your ... meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  get in: Welcome to MIT! Celebrate with your family and friends - and ... a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for ... you who don't get in: Take a deep breath. It's okay. In my psychology

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your ... whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to ... a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  [annotation note="it's a bakery in hmart, so every time i go get groceries it ... move out, and now there's no one automatically tuned in to your needs ... . (when i told her this, she said she was going to mail me a bunch of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of ... 's 150th was a pretty neat event to cover: Check out these three articles

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  after one fateful trip to the bathroom in which I discovered a door on ... you in high school. If your parents are professionals, there's a much ... after a week we were getting kind of sick of doing express-your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... and April. So, basically applying to MIT has been like a kick in the ... scarier is how badly you want to get in but knowing everybody else wants it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  your decision as every day you look in the mirror and look like a slob ... problem. You're in the in-between zone of beard length and the beard has a ... experience, a journey cut too short, it's tragedy is it's beauty; and in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to consider all ... . Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details. Standardized tests are required for every first-year application to MIT. However
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... evolved? Oh, and tell your hacker friends that if they want a hack to last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... this page. Not to mention the dessert menu, which deserves showcase in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  rising star in economics since her doctoral dissertation- on a new way to ... through with our plans to take a trip to the White Mountains in New ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and then (finally) get a dog. Everything was going according to plan. I was ... little cocoon it formed. My husband, in a well-intentioned effort to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  being able to travel to Japan and stay with a host family in the summer of ... 's about a boy named Gon who wants to follow in his father's footsteps of ... subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note="a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of ... with so many different motivations are attracted to Career Fair, it gets

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a ... begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012