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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... Admitted: To get this answer will be difficult and perhaps a bit frustrating ... it may seem like the “end of the world” to them (and fodder for yet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... on down to the esplanade and take a few minutes to run 3 miles with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  the hidden location on campus, call headquarters to confirm, and we'd be ... -fi plots and RPG-inspired tasks that is undoubtedly much cooler than it ... and Astaire and write them in the grid. The second trick was to realize

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  , East Campus, and Senior House) dorms plus Burton Conner allow students to ... TV and fridge, sure- you're welcome to put whatever you'd like into ... considered to be an awful room with a bad shape, size and lighting and through

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  MIT evening is like, and I will not be able to tell. By “evening” I ... on the ceiling from which to hang stuff. And oscilloscopes. Lots and ... numbers and not content. The word “pset” doesn’t come up much. Then the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  market was difficult and they struggled to land a job. Totally ... undergraduate experience was cut short by COVID-19, and this was a good way to ... everyone to write a thesis, which usually means working in a lab and gaining

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a ... to learn from them and see what else they had up their sleeves. It took ... surprised to discover exciting new things – both about them and the world

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... Class of 2017 has arrived and is doing Orientation.  Classes will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... Bio, Computational and Systems Bio, Developmental Bio, Genetics

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... to pledge. Rushing isn't an easy job, and popular culture doesn ... you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... , is of course, difficult to find at a place at MIT. There's just so much ... , and you have to throw out an arm or a leg to counterbalance and keep

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... I wanted to do more of, and what kinds of things I felt I could do

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  I didn't really mind. I would like to record his playing and sample it ... , I'm not even going to be like Rooney and just 'accidentally' step on your crotch." And he made the guy fall down, too. Okay, I have to split

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... have increased the number of outstanding applications to MIT and to many ... accordingly, and the increase in the number of students admitted to MIT in Early

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a ... , did she not?) and enjoyable to swim in. Which reminds me! According to ... Nativity Facade. And now you have seen about as much of the temple as Gaudi

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still ... kicking in. It's one thing to follow the news on the Internet and tweet at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to ... Junot Diaz and I am going to get him to sign my book and holy moly I am going to walk the same hallways he walks and holy moly Junot Diaz. Between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  >?  I just have no idea - there's to much exciting and wonderful in the ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... quick question to a nearby SIPB member, this was fixed. And "pony" was

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  ’s very easy to take on too much. I’ll let the data and the stories speak ... me and the two other news editors to make sure that you get your bi ... and ready to run in our latest feature. If you haven’t checked it out

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012