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  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  issues, and all I can say is that we figured out how to be friends. Fancy ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... in a glorious 500-something square foot room furnished with two sinks

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  I know for show tunes is, fittingly, told in a show tune. Yes, I know ... —completely cold. I went in only knowing that the name of the musical was Wicked. My ... that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time... MY LOVE LETTER TO

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to ... of them: Chameleon Chameleon is a body art studio located in Harvard Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  classes, and a GIR). You'd assume that at MIT I could register for classes ... psets! I have homework in my HASS classes, dude! I assumed that taking two ... a "less memorable moment" in the second four bars. Well, I've got the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Silence continues. I've finally picked a story, though. This is about how ... ) Note that this is not a particularly scientific classification system. I ... read. That "aw, how sweet. a new chapter in your life has begun" look

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... was a Course 6 major from the start, fairly confident that I wanted to ... first UROP at the robotics lab. In the same way that I had wanted to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  because I see that this is true — people in robotics have direct influence ... candidate for jobs in robotics. I started doubting myself a lot, worried that ... still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in ... has 646 public schools, with nearly 500,000 students. A thousand homes ... that there must be a better solution to fighting these fires. Maybe it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is ... myself doing well enough in school that I could get into a place like MIT ... ’re obsessing over at any given time? That’s how I am with facts. I always have a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  of the story here is that no one is a shoo-in for MIT, but the opposite ... I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... students how to do experiments. Maybe a parent who is uncertain whether a ... Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL is the place that sends out

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very ... you 11415 years to hit a million dollars. Unfortunately, this is not a

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  for a day before leaving for Albuquerque and I can tell you that it was ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... minor in this. I love writing - maybe it could be more than a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  is done through a MySQL database so I'm not sure how to send that ... 89%) in O levels and 4 As in A/S level is how much likely to get ... , but beyond that I can't help. All I can say is to apply and see how it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  head upstairs, where I tuck myself in a mutebox, which is like an ... idea for how to simplify the model, so I poked around with that for a bit ... this was the first time in two months that I remembered to bring a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position ... across. how to set up a meeting. i've learned that mit also runs on when2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  physics course that a large portion of the freshman class enrolls in – we ... Wednesday, because all I did was calculus; I guess that p-set happened ….at 5:00 ... film that lasted 2.5 hours - and I had a physics quiz the next day. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009