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• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... mistake; if they really deserved admission. To the members of the Class of ... weaknesses. I think back to a story one of the bloggers told me about coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  go to the fun ones instead. Try make it to a lot of the different ... visit them to see some of the awesome murals they have. Andrea L. '14 ... . Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure. Hylomorphism: both an anamorphism

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... still don't really have the slightest clue as to what he actually did. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  our "experiment" to calculate the size of the ping pong ball "nuclei" in ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... the possibility of being dangerous to yourself and those around you. About 20% of people have obtained an injury due to a sneeze. The angle of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  to mention it shows up better on the page and doesn't fade. My pen of ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had ... scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio ... the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were ... :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the grocery store with his mother, he would calculate the amount of cash she ... to attend the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  scope of the research is carbon sequestration to mitigate anthropogenic ... the cheerleading squad to see if I could get anybody else's summer plans. Since nobody on the squad responds to emails, I got four five responses

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  ; we took some of them to get Green Building hot chocolate the weekend ... to this song on repeat for the entirety of IAP. i'm not sure why, it ... for spring break, and of course we had to stop in salzburg for the sound

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  . That sense of resignation—not even attempting to cross the abyss—Rooney is ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... heat-resistance approximately equal to that of the surrounding gas and ... equation that related time to distance and could calculate all of this. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my ... to others. Friends from the other side of campus dined with me daily ... raft in the middle of the ocean. With people to keep me afloat, I knew

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of ... admit them to the Class of 2018. Turning away so many kind, generous ...  over at MIT News.  Congratulations to the Class of 2018. I wish all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... places, so take what they have to say with many grains of salt. I apologize

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

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013