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• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... - really, it is all going to be okay. Whether the admissions decisions are ... best to select the most perfect class of MIT students they possibly can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... -coated giant, or learning Haskell, which is one of the most intimidating

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  opportunity to go do and try those things in the city. TRAVEL Travel is ... Dear Reader, I'm writing this in the Wordpress portal and this is an ... feel just as much as I felt in those moments. The crying, the laughter

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my ... .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  art is trained on stolen art Cami: Hades 2 trailer sent in the group ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  , etc." "meal plan is so overpriced" "I try to only eat in the dining ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... make living work without having to eat instant ramen every day in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... . Rifle is at the shooting range in duPont, behind and attached to the Z

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  fabric, Savannah is, to me, the most charming town in America. [carousel ... ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... used to be all the rage in country music. Purported to be on the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  their time to do this. Of course, the interview is mostly about you, so ... . It gets you in the mindset of thinking about what things matter most to ... In our holistic application process, the interview is one aspect where

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  . Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in ... learned so much over the summer. In my first week on the job, my mentor sat ... to use git—which in itself would have justified the summer. I learned a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  . None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... submit the supplement are not), and there is no audition process to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is ... in an epic, life-or-death basketball game. To begin the design ... a mold. The warm plastic is then sucked down on top of the mold to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  five cookies in one sitting will most likely lead to a tummy ache ... fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  most underappreciated tourist site in the city. Mission Dolores is the ... Cantonese as soon as possible, since this is probably the most useful Asian language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... -legged robot, he returned to the subject in his biweekly "Movie Answer Man ... to achieve with a three-legged machine. A kangaroo is the closest thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  step in the project was to establish a set of constraints such that a ... for their research, because all you have to do is say the world ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running ... in the hall bathroom. It helps to have a little basket (one that you ... packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... neighborhood kids. This pack of boys liked to tease the youngest one in the crowd ... .” So what’s in a name anyway? Are we making too much of the word nerd

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011