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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  would get outstanding grades.)" You don't need a high school diploma to ... services time is 508 hours. I feels so bad about it. Do I need to write a ... , could you notify me so that I can send a new one?" You'll need to call our

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... , IAP is a really great time to start because you can work up to 40 hours per week with your supervisor, giving them a lot of time to train you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little ... your room to how to decide whether you should go to class can be a ... until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  …it’s certainly a lot. Not much to talk about at the moment, since we’re still in ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... stats sound like you are smart enough to do the work, so you should think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learned enough to create a cool final project, but it's hard to actually ... 've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  !" without contracting hypothermia for much longer) - some people are laughing ... conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... MacGregor to play 11:30pm Ultimate Frisbee out on Briggs Field. I did a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of interconnected neurons, give rise to our mind—our consciousness and ability to
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to ... who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  right, mom. Getting sick really does suck.) To end on a positive note ... super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are unacquainted, a lathe and a mill are tools used to machine metal/plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  means to be a person who thinks and feels and has the urge to create something. what does it mean to create something, what does it mean to live a ... —is a heavy feeling.  as much as i wish for the goodbye to be prolonged

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  narrative. So it'll be much messier, but hopefully provide some insight as to ... and such. When it came to history, however, all that was offered was a ... the MIT Faculty in their collections. I sent in a request to retrieve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The ... metrics to heart that much, but it is evident that I feel more productive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... . The words "too many irons in the fire" don't mean much to us. We like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... during the weekend, there is a huge support system here at MIT to help you ... .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... ,000 days is a much longer time than three weeks, with a greater variety of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  demonstrated to me just how passionate, smart, crazy, and down-to-earth they ... experiences as a student at MIT. I hope you enjoy their stories as much as I do :-) ... : had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart ... the whole; sometimes we put so much into the work that if a scene does ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017