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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... the title because it's beautiful. It's ambiguous. And it pertains to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode, and it features some interviews I conducted with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  about my two cats back home. What I’m trying to say is, it’s important to ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... plastic bags and enthusiasm. It was like we had found a way to bottle the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  . Yes, the essay is important, but it's hard to make your writing more ... , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give it a listen and let us know what you think! https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... impressive as I think it was supposed to be, so I detoured from my studying

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be ... Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According ... , revealing what is to everyone (except to us lol), as Petey put it, “the least ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... justified it.) Evan Broder's Holiday Card ...is perhaps the cutest thing on ... , I will scan it in and publish it here. Valentine's Day ...is coming

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

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  , because it is okay, and things will be okay, but it's hard to know things ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put ... unknown, to open my arms out to it and welcome what the universe has in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Wrote A Thing media and articles and no punctuation

  

  I wrote a thing It is an article about hospitalizations In particular, the hospitalization of my friend - she is named Emily in the ... sick to get to them I'm working at an awesome place part-time, and it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang ... fall but the weather is still nice. We go to a nice part of campus and ... the start to freshman year has been rather odd. It definitely doesn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  much." "You have too many jobs." "Rachel, just go to sleep!" "Is it ... /milk/egg solution - it is okay for it to sort of fill over, make sure that the pie tin ... 's market in Haymarket, just a fifteen minute T ride away!  It is so simple to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  . This is so unbelievably weird to think about, because I never really ... to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... myself to stop, just to get some homework done. It's like wasting time on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  three times a week to dance with their hiphop team! it was a good ... to meet dancers from diverse backgrounds, but i ended up dropping it ... annual show is then and we spend all of January preparing for it. formals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  to my MIT classes. Each college is trying to improve its own exam ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI at this point, right?" to which they said, “No, it’s not!” To be sure ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  , and Transgender) Community, so the Rainbow Lounge at MIT is the home to ... ; ...and movies.   Any student is welcome to sign up for lending ... -known projects to come out of the Rainbow Lounge is the "You Are Welcome Here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009