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  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... to discover yesterday afternoon. You see, my laptop has a removable ... off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out ... , where we had to decide exactly where to give our free concert to celebrate ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... the dishes, so much so that I have switched to using mostly paper plates. But, I realized that before coming to college, I took my home

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... really was everything I’d imagined it to be-- and more. Somewhere out there ... Minority Education with a seven-week summer component meant to ease the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... moved west to Palo Alto for my master's and decided to stay when I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I ... the time I randomly get the urge to make something it feels like I ... pursuits feel like this to me   it's kinda funny being at the whims

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... sillier. Today, I present to you: Operation Pumpkin. Objective: Transport

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... hold your phone up to some of the paintings, they'll come alive with AR ... wanted to make more time to draw, so I was really excited when Borderline

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and ... want to say is that the memories I discuss are simply the ones that have resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  first → "Oof, I don't think I can come" → Do some TA work Go to sleep → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah, text me where" → Go to recitation → Start a new blog post Go on a voice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  would be too distracting, and any quieter spaces would only serve to ... bloating their research reports with sentences that start to make less and ... trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend that people talk to when they're bored?) i've always thought there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  with a whenisgood.net form to set up my group interview. My interview ... "Why do you want to be apart of CodeIt?" and other things. For the ... question) and the other would navigate (tell the person what to type). The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply to THINK! It’s different from most other high school research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current circumstances, I've had to pick and choose who to spend my [rare] free time with, and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  and limited to being mostly textual: an email to an advisor, letting ... sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... also switched majors to aerospace engineering. I had a long list of requirements to complete to graduate on time. This list included 6.00, or

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020