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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... asymptotically how can we quantify the notion of "information" and estimating

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  just showing me how much more introspection I need to do before I can do ... . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  same time, I was in school studying math and computer science. I am more interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... . How in the world did you both go from doing engineering at MIT to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  2, which is red. And I can hide everything in the layer by clicking ... teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... can add or remove Artboards after the document is created. I also like

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs ... know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  how long I can keep this sprint up when I look at my calendar and see ... should be doing in January. I worry about how much energy I’ll have next ... productivity. Graduation seems so far away, and I’m not sure how far my legs can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks in The Waiting Room that many EA admits have been wondering how they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program ... the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  Verde's ridiculous prices in the student center. I told Geza to set the pace, that I would follow. I can imagine how strange this would look like to the ... obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... our 8% international quota. I'm still very interested in attending MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a ... most everything I do. Taking an example from when I was younger, in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  made me wonder how i could've gotten tested for covid if i felt too sick ... to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one that felt this bad. here's what i knew other people did: spend time in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to ... One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  was also concerned with how I was personally enjoying my time in Mexico ... Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a ... -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016