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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  , or all four for the "haunted house" effect. What's best is you can ... haven't caught up to him yet. * Dr. Popular is the cutest cat you've ever ... turns black also. Cat hair is impossible to quickly pick off of clothing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to ... very well, which is why I told Firefox to just remember it. It worked

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien ... . p.s. I think even my iPhone is getting used to our new relationship ... [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  lot of schools of the same caliber, and you’re generally going to get ... researched what the best place to study math was. “[MIT]’s where I’ll go,” she ... to be depressive and competitive. Daymé echoes the same points. Getting

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  us out, the project is split into six chunks (GR1 to GR6), each chunk ... sketches, etc. The end of a GR is usually marked by a four-minute class ... videos and asinine rants about the newest way a celebrity is embarrassing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a ... Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10 ... . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  often outside of school. When you get to see people all hours of the day ... to new things is fun though. When the year goes on and I become ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  for you. The only way for your children to make this decision is to ... it is you need a shoe horn to get their heads through the door) This ... , don't be surprised if the 2nd question is "How am I supposed to get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  way about your own writing? Once again, the purpose of the essays is to ... college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to ... belong to the world.  The commencement address will be given today by ... difficult done to you, is trying, as hard as you can, to tend toward the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year ... 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... feeling it will start to get more detailed as the week gets closer. Some

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... . That is why the questions are very specific.  Similar to the MIT Application, we ask you the questions we want to know. Imagine that you get into

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  quickly, but by the time both cars made it back to campus to pick everyone ... , by the way its glow darted from one corner of the sky to another. Then ... Albans City in Vermont but, early on the way we then decided to go to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... eventually found my way back by walking in the direction of the Prudential

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  .03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.)
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... guy who was keeping them from talking to the guy they wanted to hire ... year. If you want to read more about what the Career Fair was like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  perfection. If you think about it, the CPU inside your computer is basically ... post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three ... quickly and reliably over huge distances and are immune to the noise that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023