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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  minute. For as long as I can remember, I was one of the smartest kids in my ... my freshman year. How do I feel about freshman year being over? A ... . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  in 2009, I was part of the blogging crew. You can’t find my older posts ... start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  The transfer application costs $75. Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , "I bet I can name that tune in three notes." And then I think about the ... stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  ? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... school for me. Then, while visiting I saw how students were meshing their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... be the standard spelling at MIT, although I can't really figure out why

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of ... is proportional, but it should be. I can definitely see how it ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  stuffed full in my brain. At this point, I had realized just how stressful ... , frustratingly, overwhelmed. “How can I help you sweetie,” the help desk man asked ... enough money in my wallet… “Please, is there anything I can do?” I asked

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was ... to hunt down stumble upon Zendaya when I can barely speak, look like a blobfish, and can infect her. This sickness feels like a test. In a lot of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  I told her how much it meant to me to see women in the gaming space. I ... Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... : I love that I can describe this problem in a single sentence: I want ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do ... physically building things. Even though I would love to learn how to construct ... other questions beyond what I showed in the video or was written in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... in the classroom, that's not true. I think probably one of the biggest

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... departures, I realize that I can make an earlier flight, so I do the "My plane

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I ... .01 is taught using the TEAL method, which I kind of explained in this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007