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  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I apply to MIT? How can I get admitted to MIT? I promise that over the ... possible how soon I can get my hands on a MIT application. I look forward to ... can come up with by the time of the next Omnibus, which I hope to do in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap ... can't see anything in any direction. It's claustrophobic, yet I feel ... the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... couple of great courses dedicated to Sustainability in Business and I ... ? Which ingredients can you procure locally, and how would you define ‘local

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a ... comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  decided that I didn't want to play the HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU USE THE WORD CURIOUS IN A BLOG POST? game) I will write up an explanation below. In the ... , ironically, curious about politics and history and how LCDs work. I didn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  how materials function, and I feel like I can apply these to real life ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?

  AeroAstro the oldest and most respected university aerospace program in the United States, and it's easy to see why. They have an Interactive Robotics lab, a Human Systems lab, a Space Propulsion lab—and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how ... was my thing and I was making bank. But I can't tell you how many times ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... I'd summarize them a bit so that prefrosh and incoming frosh can see ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  wrestling can't be the only thing all 4000 of us have in common. I just don ... hear, they like human beings. Can't blame them. I have this idea in my ... doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... didn't notice how gingerly I walked. Eventually I went to MIT Medical ... sucked. I couldn't exercise by running, so I started lifting weights in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... what the editing process will look like during school — how will I make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I ... lab -- how exciting! I've also been working on assignments for my other

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006