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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  , and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was ... applications…and I had nothing but time to read them. Scarce hours of daylight were punctuated by Zoom calls and Slack huddles with colleagues

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  long-term plan. I can drop 6.s966 and absolutely nothing bad will happen ... numerous pre-Spring Break deadlines and exceedingly poor sleep, but I’m used to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  the same format: the autonomous stage and the driving stage. The ... with your controller and score as many points as you can. The ... and gathers as many points as it can before time is up. Coding

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was ... ; it was a bit traumatizing and I forgot to document the process, but it ... on 35 mm projection for the Spirited Away screening that weekend and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... problem sets and projects with them, live with them, cook with them, play ... you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... of our favorite books, and then prefrosh who signed up for the giveaway ... predictable, it was well-animated and strongly emotional nonetheless. i cried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I celebrated by popping into Spooky Skate and skating (read: falling ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation ... decorations, exciting costumes, and yes, the all-important trick

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... asked him a question about the physics department at MIT, and he directed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the ... Hawking and Professor Xavier* from X-Men. My dreams of parsing the grammar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... required 2 considered? And does MIT (and other colleges) accept the new Internet based TOEFL? In order: Both are important (and required). / Not as

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  oscilloscopes and stuff,” he said after reading a bit closer, “That’s, um, still ... for several reasons: It’s dynamic, fun, and one of my favourite ... Guitar Hero is. The graphics are relatively simple and abstract. An MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a ... pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class ... had one goal: learn to apply line and tone to capture reality. I liked

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  adventures, I feel more at home overseas and traveling abroad than at home ... -up to a course I took last term called 4.S10 – Delhi and Jaisalmer: An ... country is most famous for – and so registering for 4S.10 was a no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  were anything like me last year, you will probably be jumping up and down ... bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a ... Requirements), and there's a really really good chance that a lot of you guys who

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  include your full name and birthdate ... as both an 85 and a 100 are considered A+), so should i send in my ... (highest rank in the middle east)....and some how the application doesnt show

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with ... skills are learnable with the help and support from the community. I really appreciate the commitment Metropolis (and its sister shop The Deep) have put

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

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  bed, gave me some tomato juice and a kiss on either cheek.  But what I ... . I told them about my dad, and how I had been fifteen the last time I ... books belonged to whom, and they’d get all mixed. When they inevitably did

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... , and I've found these are the perfect spreads I need to feel like I have ... between my Monday and Wednesday lineup. [caption id="attachment_117498

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  ), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I ... audiobooks and taking pictures. Anyways here's some cool murals :) [carousel

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... Phi Beta Epsilon! Right next to the tennis courts and other athletic ... to give us a tour is Ethan R. ‘25, a member of the lacrosse team, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025