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• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  right person... age ain't nothing but a number. The name I'm not changing ... to help students who didn't understand as well.) So just being a good ... , and recognizable from a distance." We love this school, you just won't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... B1 residents use the stairs. At this point in time, B1 didn't have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  Square (I'm jealous of you, whoever you are!) I imagine it wasn't just me ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... of the colors changed: blue was now yellow, red was now cyan. This wasn't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  vibes. We started with the buttery fish fumet. I didn’t know what a fumet ... it on the menu -- I don’t think I’ve ever had a fish panini before, and ... options (such as: exploring the city, socializing, trying a new recipe

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  package. I'm a student who has to go to a full need college--the cost of ... was a huge skeptic of this idea--can't you just kinda vibe out someone ... ). I'm not here to sugarcoat the truth: MIT does have a budget to balance

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  the doomed attempts of a student to woo his T.A., had the entire ... 're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  but it is progress! And I'm especially happy I was able to maintain a ... :30-6:30) I did a really light legs day since I didn't have that much time. I ... assumed they weren't breaking the rules maliciously. When a group of rowdy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  hovering over the room… I’m currently reading “On Looking,” a book where ... ="Admittedly, I'm not a neuroscientist, but here's a source: https ... , “Can I see your room?” I’m a bit puzzled; after all, I barely know

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the people you call Mom and Dad. (I'm sure that you call them other things when

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  downtown next to this famous clock! (Don't ask me what it's called, I'm not ... . I don't like solo travel...at least, in Europe. I'm not an extroverted ... lush greenery. I'm satiated with my European adventures for a while. I'm

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  of a more comprehensive post that i wrote for myself but didn’t think ... role that i enjoyed a small trading startup, let’s call them A. while i’m ... handled correctly, will give us a lot of capabilities we didn’t have before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  term setting up a serviceable replica. They haven't gone to the trouble ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  clothes are allowed at this party. I'm not a big fan of public nudity, so I ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country ... during CPW), so I can't say much about them. I know a couple of other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  you can't just stick your eye into a radio telescope; nowadays ... like this: Bam. Pulsar. Of course, our data nowadays doesn't come on a ... of the problem was that it put the files in a place I didn't expect

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... collaboration isn’t just a suggestion, it’s the norm and it’s something I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  this! Even a pandemic can't prevent us from maintaining decades of ... I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  circle- I can't believe I'm graduating soon! ... in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a ... . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  sketchbook, pencil, tape, drafting board, knife, T-Square, tracing ... simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art ... -making. (OK - a classmate just informed me that we could quite possibly be

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  [/caption] In the past two weeks, I’ve absorbed a lot, and I’m still processing. I ... This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023