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  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge, Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... in Taiwan that we only have two seasons in a year - "wet and hot" and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... there are people who are immensely better than I am at math in every ... it themselves. At this point in my life, I think I agree. When I try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics ... introduce your actual lab education in a two-semester experimental Physics ... lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... quest with friends in Baldur’s Gate 3 fill my heart gauge with energy. I ... sophomore. I’m crashing in Tokyo with a friend I made through inline skating

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  note="and i must clarify with the pain in my heart that i now also ... at blogger meetings and occasionally wave hi in the corridors ... , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art school. In the first volume, his art teacher, Masako Saeki, assigns him

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hello, after six years

  

  the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea ... questions i am still learning to hold in my heart. i am also trying to think ... we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were ... hold on, and we'll see you back here in March. We have posted more

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the ... depressed in my room. The last time I had my weekly cadence torn apart was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The ... process and experience in the class, then highlights each lamp in the final

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads, our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the ... bikes. As someone who lived in Washington, D.C. for a few years, trust me

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus ... information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider your application anew, and without prejudice, in Regular Action.  Also, remember that this

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U-Haul truck headed towards a sketchy storage facility somewhere in the middle of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... randomly selected from each floor. There was over $500 in prize money, in ... in each category. There were also prizes for the entries that won Best

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019