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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to meet, and infinite resources to discover. Everything seemed possible and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it ... , they hold weekly airshows to show off the capabilities of the restored

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  proposed to deal with an epidemic that is threatening 600 lives: one program ... helpless to resolve the inconsistency. Still, just because other people are ... start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  ="going to therapy"]soul searching.[/annotation] I ate toast with peanut butter ... , and nicked my nails trying to sand things. I'd like to believe that all ... metaphor?"]still soft and prone to damage.[/annotation] Since high school, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... all the important insults they thought we needed to know. But let's see ... verb to match the subject. The same thing happens when you answer the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  and Steer Clear Ruth ('07), Matt ('08), and I went down to Chinatown ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc ... entry. Don't go to China Pearl; it doesn't have a shark fin. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was ... music technology to open-heart surgery. The freedom to choose between so many classes enabled me to learn and apply interesting ideas across all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  posts. I made a Spotify playlist if you want to listen to them all: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wP6Lb5qZ0B9NXAjwsFYyl?si=2c079440422a4f32 I've had to make some substitutions to some songs not on Spotify. Stats This is my 173rd post, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  IHTFP (PE registration edition) the T in MIT stands for sporT

  

  moon and prefers to rot in bed over a morning run, I would like to ... requirement: if we want to graduate, we have to earn eight (8) PE points and ... . This generally means that you have to take 4 PE classes (though of course

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 6, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  only mean one thing--IT'S TIME TO BUILD A SNOW FORT! Part 1: The ... snow shenanigans. When? It’s important to build your fort before ... stickiness to form blocks, and also you’ll suffer more. With a cold front

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... completely sleeping through ticket launch, I'm here to liveblog our reaction to ... excited. (watch the livecast here if you want to join us for the ride

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024