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  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... research opportunities are a close second.) Put it this way: I can learn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  in the quilt. I can always buy another shirt. MIT equation shirt ... to get rid of. Besides, I can wear those to work or game conferences in ... that even in a couple of decades, I can still look at this quilt and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when ... way that mankind buys food from the back of a truck. I assert that only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  and composure and I was so, so impressed by how she handled CodeIt in ... , programming, and video games. I can't wait to see what they do in the future ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that ... found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction ... can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  . "Sounds good, how do I start the puzzle?" you might ask. Well, if you ... MIT 2014. You can also read about some interesting past HackMIT projects in ... undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and ... in the gear); I found that sticker in the TechX storage room, when me ... I found on the floor in Boston Logan (gotta stay fresh and rock what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  question about art supplement. How many works I can include in my portfolio ... domestic student. Victor wrote, "I know you can include pictures in your ... . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  forever. Try it next time you have some red grapes sitting around. I have ... in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I ... then I went back and checked out that squalor website again, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in ... there, and I realized that if I actually pursued a career in this ... nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  formulaic.” I’m not sure if the quote that ended up in the article quite ... other domain. You can have terrible taste in music but good taste in ... "] something doesn’t seem right…[/caption] Anyway, I don’t doubt that, in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at ... where some of the sisters live (for example, I still live in the dorm ... your desk in the Reading Room to see a row of empty coffee cups and Red

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007