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• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... the air before it enters my system. It’s also recommended to breath in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  an incoming freshman because “I’d never get in!” and then proceeded to ... "]RAT[/annotation] in my room and I had to call Unit 12 to get rid of it and some lady ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  how much we were able to get done without setting anything on fire ... going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... powder flour Ok. Plan acquired! Part 2 - Get in loser, we’re going

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  good in SolidWorks, how's it going to look in real life? The first thing ... ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to ... a lot of coolant splashing everywhere so it was hard to get really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  the right amount of torque to get the satellite in the right orientation ... remember going to an info session in the Green Building before the tour. How ... wanted to get in somewhere before hearing back from MIT in December. This

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  told me that whatever grade I get in this class: it's really not going to ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in their context, especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out ... ’t even know where to start. Soon they’re going to realize how insanely ... everything will get fucked up. If you can’t study now, how will you ever

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  tell us how you will do? To get a more balanced view we ask you to also ... here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  classes get rejected. Why? Because often these kids knew how to grind, but ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... figure out how to think about feelings and communication more clearly, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... really cool.       Feel free to tell me how awesome I am. ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How can I get a course catalog?

  MIT has an online course catalog called the Bulletin that provides details about MIT, the campus, and undergraduate programs, including requirements and course descriptions for majors/minors.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023