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• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is ... by the Video4Colleges podcast about the drone delivery video from Pi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  of working that by myself I’d probably just be staring at a wall anyway ... It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It ... place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  the basics of cybersecurity, and losing out on millions of dollars by ... called Stripe, founded by some of my MIT friends during a summer in which I ... -arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  'm not Yan.)   The Rainbow Lounge has a whole bunch of resources ... a bunch of photos. This is by no means anything approaching a ... for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  expanding pressure in my skull...As if cognitive energy is streaming out of my ... past year that is a wall completely filled by handprints in a variety of ... who walked by to come in, dip their hands in paint, and put a set of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  process of research, of venturing into the unknown. In math and physics ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on ... over inside an RV to watch sonar clips of fish swimming by while

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  campus during IAP 2012, swing by during the last weekend of January and the ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... ?" followed shortly by "Wait...we could actually do this." These words are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on ... to: Process a bunch of correspondence from applicants who have been ... process Edit a bunch of Nance's stuff Entertain Nance Design an online

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  exhibition preview feb 12; by Pedro Gómez-Egaña; at the List Center As part of ... interact with the space–in the midst of the creative process. [caption id ... that’s hosted by a variety of Women’s and Gender Studies departments

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  morning further of whatever charms it used to have. By every account, this class should be a terrible experience, but by the end of every rehearsal ... insanity of MIT?” One-by-one, the choir members answered that music is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a student's application—all materials have to be processed. We ask for seven
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  ; this is the best sick week ever only vacuously, by truth of it being the ... obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... the toilet. In front of me, next to the door, was a featureless white ... -aalaga sa'yo." Living alone is hard. There's no one to take care of you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  in europe over spring break, inspired by the Sound of Music tour that i ... we were all back together at MIT again. We Ran out of CD Space by ... - [reasoning redacted] Smereka by Mad Heads XL - this is a weird song. one of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  “comparatively pleasant.”) By the way, I'm sure some of you think that “shoes” is ... the sad, sweet, soul-searching-and-room-searching process of moving out ... Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  than not, though, judging by my lack of energy to do anything right now ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... happen to enjoy the process of drawing. So I’ve picked up a notebook again

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  organic part of the alloy is super strong and prevents him from melting by ... Australia found this site by Googling the phrase "what happens when you ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  process was envisioning the details of the space and the physical structures ... entire process as "a semester of wrangling and fighting" with technology ... in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023