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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or ... : Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, your community, and your safety. You will not be penalized in the application process because of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  small whiteboard under their room number, and each hall in Maseeh has 2 ... that is a blend of the other dorms' cultures here. The diversity is definitely why I love living here! And that concludes our short tour of Maseeh

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... compliments she had to offer, despite the overall morbidity of the characters ... particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  direction applying this principle to the ideas of control and attachment, we ... both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  years of science)and plan to apply to MIT to major in biology. How would ... don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexual appeal to offer them do they finally treat me as one of them. That I ... tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and ... of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  Waffle" (based out of the Simmons Hall dormitory, which looks like a space ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  walked through Xiamen University, which was beautiful. Took lots of ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... those prints mightily in the warm weather of Saint-Tropez. Then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... frostbite. Thankfully, we were indoors for most of the trek across campus

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... beautiful smile that you'd think that she's the daughter of a Crest employee

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  . That part really is kind of random and up to God, the universe, whomever ... For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... sort of felt like I just ran into people as I went about my life, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Well, here we are. I’m taking a brief stop in the Great Hall of Union ... before this conversation, but they both went to University of Nebraska ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus ... offers shuttles day and late into the night around campus in Cambridge and
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source ... their word count by the amount of times they speak. To apply these ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  of math that'll apply to concurrent and future classes. Leaving 8 ... taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  the halls of Burton-Conner at 5 am with, and to talk about my ... uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020