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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take ... list of things one ought to do in order to get in. Do note that they don ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  . Supposedly, students that are accepted to MIT are “well-rounded.” In reality ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  the fact that it was going to get erased eventually. Really shows how ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a ... , medium format workhorse weighing in at about 8 pounds with its 180mm lens—to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was ... hours later, we arrived at Giuseppe's Showtime Pizzeria in New Hampshire ... were reunited. Where you might ask? Only at the Classic Arcade Museum in

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the ... a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... very good". Certainly you don't have to be an IMO medalist to get in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to ... listened to more, i guess. Gloria and Teresa carried in number of songs

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... understand the documentation and how to make sense of Drake in general, but we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  later in the semester, but the dinners need to be in by late October for ... . Broad are active philanthropists not just in Boston, but also in New York ... , and Tracy Kidder is the journalist who traveled with him in order to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute ... , day to day, I find myself in a constant cycle of never-ending work. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman ... , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... myself how to use Photoshop for scientific applications today. Check out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read ... he expects the new one will be up by midday Sunday. "You need to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  problem was just absolutely hilarious to me at that point in time. Luckily ... sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... and get money for all these cool projects and we have a study break

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... desire to leave. You wake up with them and the thought of getting out of ... certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the ... entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , really. Really. How many e-mails does Mitra send me in a typical day? Let ... The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra is at work and how excited she gets. The standard deviation, however

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005