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• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  requirements. I applied and got into MIT’s MEng (Masters of Engineering) program ... year, I am a senior. Most of the friends I first made here have all graduated and all those afterwards shall carry on Tetazoo’s legacy of fiery

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  your QuestBridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... Displays of Science Regardless of what display you’re using to read this blog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  people an impromptu tour of our empty hall. I head to the grills, and talk ... trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh ... my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... , when students go to tons of fun events at dorms to explore different

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... after high school. I applied to MIT my senior year, deferred admission (gasp!) and spent the better part of a year not always understanding what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the ... ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... applications. Help you with the financial aid process. Help you apply for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all around me, and I just have all of this freedom and nobody telling me that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping ... worry (not that you were). Since I've gone and missed most of the period ... ago, before winter break -- and a few days before all of you Early

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  food court of Lesley University. That means they don't have an exterior ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... never hit that kind of mileage before. In Chinese, we say "people beyond people, horizons beyond horizons" (人外有人，天外有天) - this kind of mileage is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... people on [annotation note="Like Alan!"]my hall[/annotation], and friends ... trend of a given math class introducing a concept, like parametric

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021