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• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the National Gallery (East Wing designed by MIT alum I.M. Pei) and maybe the ... kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which was...a very low, low chance. The 8.0x1 classes (like 8.021 and 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  the classroom. It read "I am large. I contain multitudes." Every lesson ... . In the eighth grade, while we were all fracturing off to different high ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  : ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  As you’ve probably already read in Chris’ post, the blogger application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the past, all of the bloggers you see here on this site have applied using

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person remaining. the way assassinations work varies year by year: one year it was

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... MIT admissions interview has been waived by the admissions office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  We’re already a month into the semester, and [annotation note="the ... schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but ... I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to participate. We heard some great questions from the audience, worth sharing on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”, the same song that I’m sure would be belted ... . Cecilia’s are similar in that they are both Catholic and carry out the same

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

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

  

  Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very very old. They will spend the next several days learning about MIT ... influence what slice of the Institute's culture you experience, especially

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... chose the words "Green Building" and "IHTFP." Both were guessed and the MIT student didn't die! 2:06 -- Most of the students here are seniors

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... . What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two ... as I wanted to, and I was largely unsatisfied with the posts I managed to make. The merch contest post was the last post I've written that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  I think I should be blogging about the relevant and interesting things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... sense. I don't feel as concerned about anything. I don't feel the pressure

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... helps you reflect on the year and plan the next one." I attempted it last

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to do after graduating, like: going through the same evidence over and ... time. worrying for the sake of worrying. it feels like such an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  I'm pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn't the reason why tens ... hall hours can be restrictive, and the food is… mediocre at best. An ... get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  loading docks. 2. v the act of finding cruft and hoarding it 3. n MIT ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... .03, 8.02, and a hass class." hosed: adj the state of being exhausted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  was for me. For those of you that have been with me for the long haul ... , non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the ... witha terrrible quality, non-scripted, talking for too long video for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020