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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It ... high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]interpreter[/annotation] for a programming language called snek, which is a dialect of LISP. But ... ."]what if we used one of these languages instead?[/annotation] All of these

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... talk about exhaustion, how classes drag on you, hours of scribbling ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my ... needles down my throat. The path I run is full of stoplights, conveniently

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up ... happened over and over again. There are a ton of pset graders, so we ... which I ended up submitting a total of 26 regrade requests on questions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... this fall, not because of administration (who is actually doing a pretty

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I ... this post, I decided to check if this has been written about before. Of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want ... little bit of today. Because quite frankly, there's nothing that makes you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson Track Center

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected group of 1e residents with a small social budget. What started as a ... ... When the creative process of destruction was complete, we took pictures

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... " and Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017."  Note: Part 1 of this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... 'll go down that rabbit hole another time. Anyways, I was getting tired of ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and i met a lot of new people, including our amazing new bloggers, and i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017