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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in)convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English ... -inducing passage from Faulkner's Light in August: Memory believes before knowing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... .   In the movie version, they say that Stark graduated "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , transfer students contour the MIT community in unexpected ways. MIT transfer ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Each undergrad in MIT majors in one of [annotation note="The numbers ... arcana in the Rider–Waite Tarot. Further, the arcana begins with 0: The Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010