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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the community center, well then you creep me out a little bit. BUT restraining

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university level. The transfer application is intended for students who have
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... . Wait, it's free?! I'm getting one ASAP." And thus, it was decided that I would sacrifice an afternoon nap for a one-mile walk across the Harvard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a ... , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  walking into a T stop only to find that the train is just leaving and the next train is eleven minutes away. Sad times. There doesn’t seem to be a ... police emergencies at certain stations. On the whole, the T is a pretty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  wearing a Google shirt and on the back it said "I'm Feeling Lucky!" I took ... at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  :1 scale, blocks are around a meter long, but walls aren't typically one ... a wonderful archive of many students' MIT experience, and I'm so ... outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  as junk. Try to leave comments NOW.), so I haven't been around. But I'm ... of this post - a few weeks ago, MITblogs got a question from Claire: "I ... cause anaphylaxis, but I'm wondering how food-allergies are accommodated

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  believe me, this time I'm really gonna move it!). My pictures aren't quite ... seriously looks like she's having a heart attack right now, so I'm too ... 's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  frame. I still can’t think about her without crying a little, which I’m ... sight, I’m told, as the illness progressed. She had a very hard life ... dying from a treatable illness (of course a brain tumour doesn’t exactly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I`m ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... it! So I`ll share what`s on my mind. I guess this is a book report

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  more discussion, because that leads to a better result. Don't use ... can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an ... There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote ... squirrel--isn’t it cute? how does it survive? why is it scared? Pluck a blade

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... . Despite the rain showers and wet feet, it was wonderful. I'm glad that I don't ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  up being pretty good.) i didn't have gloves, so by the time i got back ... . but it still wasn't snowing. around 4 pm daniel called me. daniel: "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  ). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for MyMIT? What are you waiting for?). Even if you don't receive an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... have suddenly landed in a whole area you don’t recognize. There are so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  the first real snow we've seen this year, which made for a spectacularly ... [/annotation]. [playlist type="video" ids="121119"] Then I got to stay with a friend (and former [annotation note="Putz is a hall in East Campus, one of MIT's dorms

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  this, too.) Dropping an activity doesn’t mean you are a flaky, useless person, and including it doesn’t mean you are a liar obsessed with ... you towards your point?” If a detail doesn’t have a clear reason for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U ... Please don't be overly concerned about your class rank or GPA (grade point average) or even whether your school calculates them. With our