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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... . Enjoy. So after an impossibly long bus ride, I dashed home to check the ... understand that you can use it in desperate situations to break into things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  ’t allowed inside. The best way to describe it was super detailed stick figure ... Team™.[/annotation] So, after Petey told them that they weren’t going to ... meet him but lowkey thought it might’ve been too good to be true

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... not you realize it, you proved to yourself that you could go out and ... of a life to live. And then after a blink or two, in my case, anyway

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring ... important for you to get your Calc GIR out of the way as soon as possible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  reverberation after 20-30ms, and it takes sound about 0.89ms to travel a foot, so ... students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... temped in New House, and after REX I moved to Senior Haus, which I love so ... incarnation of the class you decide to take, so long as you pass it and graduate

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  like "Guys we should go to Montreal". It happens. What follows are the ... :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... it up as: Physics-0 Chris-1. So I raced back to my room to throw all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what ... ="61419" /] This guide is not a permanent fix; it will need to be repeated as ... ="aligncenter" width="450"] it's a bit hard to see, but there's lines of toothpaste that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  accepted that it was not possible to become Brian Greene himself). I ... . It seemed that it was in fact possible to pursue a joint study of ... . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Intro to Solid State Chem. textbook after lending it out to some guy named ... poem. Apologies to anyone who can read; after 1.5 years at MIT, I ... . I'm going to share it here, with the warning that it lurks around in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  -(semester)-life crisis where I asked myself why I wanted to major in bio: was it just ... was it really was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? ...Then ... to get as much experience as possible in the fields I was considering

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... coming from the star to the Earth to dip, which is a possible sign that ... camera lenses. This is called scattered light, and it can cover up possible

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... it as complex as possible for the GEL’s without making it too difficult ... . At 1:00 on Friday, it was my turn to lead the simulation. Under the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  [annotation note="I realize this is so ick but after I put it I have to commit ... of the airport near ticketing for 40 minutes while waiting for it to ... so much time to get there (it's three gates down) (boo) Find water

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  all, it's more fun to play idle games when you're juggling several of ... demo, and is short enough to finish in one sitting. It doesn't feel like it builds up to anything, and there's really only one obvious thing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  in Early Action. When should I fill it out? As soon as possible ... ,88 Or, if you feel like you need to
 explain something – put it only ... example, it is sufficient to write "B+" rather than "

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  'll just have to see how it all goes. It's IAP, after all. Anything can ... answer is that IAP is truly what you want it to be. MIT students and ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  after work, I just go home and don't leave my room until it's time to go ... . To be honest, I am not sure if it is possible to precisely explain to ... trying to say in the first place."]essayer, as it were,[/annotation]my way

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... vomiting more words after being forced to write so much.  As an ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  worth it? tbh, yes. After checking out the parties, we went to the lounge ... to figure out housing. I thought it would be easy, but seeing the huge ... though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019