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  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a ... I made a whole ordeal out of switching into 10B, and now I'm just ... their mom at MIT is a CS major of some flavor. It's trite and overdone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so ... the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... of email, but we wanted it to have a little bit more charm. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  chill. Without going into the details of the research project, the ... goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the field of autonomous robot systems. [caption id="attachment_90091" align

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  year of blogging with another blogger wrapped. these have become a ... , considering how most of the bloggers listen to more music than ~95% of their ... always been on top. slay fatima did a lot of listening to TSwift this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT ... did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... whenever i cry in front of her she kinda just looks at me like ...you good ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... ... How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look?  

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  ! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for ... (the German equivalent of a high school) in Essen --  Leibniz Gymnasium -- located in the northwestern region of Germany. We were hosted by a computer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... pacific science center laserdome. a few weeks ago it was fourth of july and ... our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put ... more times before the end of the program. By the fourth time, I could ... a second. We've gotta take care of something." Without putting the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were ... diversion: it’s a hack--the MIT Zoo! (Check out “A Collection of Curious

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... form of shin splints. I asked around for advice and got plenty: Stretch

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014