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• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  economics at MIT." Thanks for following up! Here are some good links to check ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus! (for even more Q&A, check ... is a good topic for the "completely option" essay about something you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  sibling had decided to show up to Portshire only two weeks after he ... have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... like the miraculous product of a stick-it mom and stuck-up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  microbiologist, who discovered the cause of syphilis, and gave up his life for the ... . Jinshinjiko （人身事故、じんしんじこ） - if you stay in Tokyo for ... even stayed up to watch it on television last night! (his speech was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  are done. say alyssa and ben were estimating how long it'd take for them ... been busy. despite spending hours cramming for 6.033 computer systems engineering, grading the final for 6.036 introduction to machine learning, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  together and it’s just too much, all at once. Not only am I keeping up with ... leaving campus always feels like a breath of fresh air. Even walking up Mass ... in the moment, because my life is full and exciting and takes up all my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... the is the term for emails sent through dorm mailing lists. The games

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... —was up and about. Suddenly, he burst into the kitchen excitedly, saying something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  short, the perfect language for MIT students. We will read greatest hits ... how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... the noodle*'s ancestors! How can we sleep for grief?" Septimus: "By

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... wherein you now need to find something else to do besides psets. For example ... interval training for the first time in maybe a year or so. Now might be a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.” The only condition ... for the past few months, from 7 to 10 pm, I've thought about that ... his father's college workshop.  To be able to make whatever I dreamed up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the ... except for one– glow in a certain sequence: the singular purple bulb ... for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  other half who had to dress up as pilgrims instead of indians. That was ... Thanksgiving. The MIT pistol team has a reputation for not only being very good ... up one day out of the year. Each year, the day before Thanksgiving, the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview ... was already pretty convinced that MIT was the place for me. I was assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the ... MIT is more concerned with applications. For example, at Cambridge, you ... questions you for an hour about what steps you are taking to solve a problem

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... job involves cleaning up poop in monkey cages. Desk is actually a pretty ... AWESOME CATEGORIES SITE I would take the time to write up an actual job

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  excited for the opportunity to observe FaMLE set up their rig in the new ... have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this ... architects as a studio for water-color sketching and life class, and as a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  -of-work. it took a while to come up with all these reasons for making my life ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... was ever mine. for example, a rather common one is i will only say

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  failed for 21 times (...I succeeded on the 22nd try) I guess I don't have ... freezing cold) - and how scared I was at beginning this class for the last ... - where bio majors do a research project for the semester right before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011