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• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears ... values. So in order to get that, you need to make sure that you don’t crash ... . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go-to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  on in my life, let alone how to write about it." A lot has changed in ... 've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  found myself a new neck and decided to consume a mango from the MIT Farmer ... with . . . ” in order to evoke the accurate positional relationship of my ... culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.) ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... how it is humanly possible to skip meals; I am hungry, hear me roar), I ... ’m qualified to use that phrase to its fullest extent, especially considering how

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... to get in!!!!!!!!!! (But you probably knew that, and if you planned to ... probably get away with generalizations in your essays because that's how you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked ... server in case BRB'd friend cared enough to keep reloading the page in ... kidding. Honestly, some days here are like working all summer to buy a new

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind ... peek in the bathroom shows me that my body wash is going to run out! Well

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm slowly starting to learn how to quiet the small voice in my head that says ... community no matter how hard I'm struggling. But, of course, in my efforts to ... -mail from Petey, and I excitedly turned to my friend in DPD saying "Oh my God

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  my friend and his friend next to him and thinking of how much I didn ... person I met in my freshman year to the person that sits with me now ... and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... ). Plus, I heard a certain Tim Beaver is planning on being there to get his rock on. He's been known to get a little crazy. See you there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  to see the challenge in action!  Also, I got to hand out inspirational ... Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global ... TUMO with my friend Caitlin O. '25. We taught students how to CAD ... something new every day. The cultural differences appeared not in dramatic

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  , Katie has been working really hard to learn new techniques and how to ... since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... effort to update me on the project via Skype when I was in England and has

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his ... .” Manolis’s interest in biology, and genetics in particular, also appears to ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006