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  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r ... ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  .5”x3.5” pieces of paper. I am putting the finishing touches on my Magnum ... Orientation Captain! I got [annotation note="captain of the white team 🤪'"]the ... the orange team 🙄'"]Caleb M. ‘27[/annotation] .  On top of this, I was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... their antithesis, Put Together the Pile of Junk! My Spark class revolved

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This ... you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of ... polar coordinates and Six of Crows was good and anyway there was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  's why: reddit has a good breakdown of the bills and some of the worst ... your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ... such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... ’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb ... 'm referring to. Being the “dumb” friend also does NOT mean I am dumb. On the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the ... wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  is it good enough? Am I good enough? I don’t know the answer to that ... . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... address, and the truth that I found in those specific words that I quoted

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small bubble into it. While the glass is still hot, gather another layer of glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers. The most ... profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is completed online; you may request evaluations through the Recommendations
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  wrong but existing address. I’ll use fake e-mails for the sake of privacy ... correct address along with the new slide, breathed a sigh of relief. Slept ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was ... since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  . However, following the release of admissions decisions, we will be mailing ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early ... ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  . However, following the release of admissions decisions, we will be mailing ... I've put down my burrito long enough to tell you, as the title ... , 12/13/14, at 15:16 (3:16PM) ET. To check your decision on the 13th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  (still working on that). Following the release of admissions decisions ... decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use ... . Decisions.mit.edu will be available through the decision date for applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  made from a sort of nostalgia -- writing in the language of his land, his ... characters are humans instead of the oceans) my friend brought up a quote related to the series. It went along the lines of: the reason that it's

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... of state laws. Back in TX, if you were in the top 10 percent of your ... factor." MIT was one of the schools I applied to because it was "that

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006