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

  

  'll need to bring a laptop; any OS is fine. 20:47 - 21:47 Nerdy Sing ... (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... Independent Living Groups)--a decent attempt at trying to understand what living

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your ... section. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay ... . We are happy to accept a midyear/updated transcript from your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  station, took it a few stops, switched to another train, took it to Penn ... finally switched over to a bus to get to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where ... stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key ... dream? Do I need a dream? I don't have an answer to that question. My ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  . Hopefully, this slice of pop culture will give your stressed-out psyche a much-needed ... a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond ... one of the chosen 5? Does anyone know where I can get a used Viper

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... to have more freedom and fewer social pressures. It's a great time to ... are great places to do this! "Right now I identify as a cisgender queer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  . It’s also important to listen to that voice that says I need a break ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  reminding me a bit too much of our relationship. I only then started to pick ... is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from ... flighty, crush-having, immature 12 year old boy, to in the final season a 17

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  chemical reactions. Going to MIT helps to give you the tools you need to ... senior year I realized that I've perhaps dedicated too much time to purely technical pursuits. And I've begun to feel a certain yearning to do something

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... 's just a nice place to sit and think. So here's my list of Things I ... really is better to get a good night's sleep before a test than to stay up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  love what we do, connecting world-class students who have a passion to ... this energy that inspires all of us to reach higher, and to go further. I remember the first time I felt this energy, arriving on campus as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5 ... "Beat the Blerch" - a race sponsored and created by Matthew Inman (creator ... BUT ultimately led to a lot of frustration because that's when I got a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  sets, so I decided to screw around with a glowstick in my room to create ... break, which was urgently needed to prevent a severe case of a horrifying ... started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  needed to learn welding as a prerequisite for the IAP class where you build ... 've developed a much deeper understanding of how the process works and how to ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  To think there’s something to me. I got invited to a party...   ... different ways an forced myself to have a go of all it and blah blah blah But ... stairs, Tried a whole lot of things that I should’ve cared  Enough to

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  (growth mindset!) and I needed to figure out a way to represent this that ... decided to go with a middle of the road paint brand, not the cheapest but ... back of my door -- mostly because I needed to know how they would look on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create a silly thread. I ... of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  create a way to run head-to-head matches. There’s a lot of work involved in ... leader without feeling like I need to dedicate every waking moment to a ... emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  . Professors don't need to sacrifice their time participating in a Professor ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022