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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  ’t make a specific choice when I think I need to make it, there will be a ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best ... be days when things will simply not go as planned. Or days where things

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  students looking up to them from the audience. Then Michael Collins stands up ... loneliest human: Here was this man, the first man to orbit the moon, a man ... stands up from the audience to say a few words applauding the teamwork

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until ... on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... 't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise ... will be on Ocotber 29, and yet AGAIN it was cancelled. Now the biggest ... going to MIT (two certain, one pending ;) ) will be very taxing for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  because you will probably be up much later than you expected to be, and not ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... fully explaining why you were unable to finish the assignment in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  out to be Sarah stealing snacks from the pod lounge. When she came out ... was not in the right mindset to do them the night before. I was so sleep ... 'm not sure if I'm going to be crying on this birthday, though. There are

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... experience, and they'd be happy to talk about the ins and outs of MIT culture ... a second major at the same time, but I wouldn't be able to pursue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... picked up in England) and last but not least, the place where the structure ... participating in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange Program. For those who are not aware

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... another quality stapler in the office for me to use, so all is well in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  the coolest bridge ever? I'm not Course 1 (Civil and Environmental ... speculate that the Magdeburg Bridge will increase shipping volumes from the ... any case, I hope this motivates everyone to be an engineer! Engineers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  numbers of [annotation note="lol i'm not going to put the name here to not ... numbers failed to latch onto me, the dances and set was still fantastic, the ... lighting to show how beautiful the cross-section was. but like, why was i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... transfer loads in pure compression from stone to stone. The shallowness of ... Collier Memorial will offer our community the opportunity to remember

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of ... and the void. The world feels like what can be best described as ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep ... fail some exams, would be staying up all night to finish p-sets I didn ... not sorry to leave the Masochistic Institute of Technology. Don't worry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... not be disadvantaged if recommenders submit their recommendations
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

  to sign into your MyMIT account. There will be no interim screens, so ...       MIT Regular Action decisions will be ... . Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  decade to show people all across the country something about MIT. But MIT: The Motion Picture was not the first movie produced by MIT or the ... visitors to MIT, “The Social Beaver” focuses on the community living and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was ... to have failed 8.02, funnily enough, because it led me on the way to ... .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020