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• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm ... farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... have to work for them. This observation was prompted by the fact that

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  applicants who apply to MIT each year, we try to build a class that represents ... our applicant pool, and thus appear to enjoy a higher admit rate than ... song (Mikey was a Log). This option is clearly superior to #'s 1-3. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University ... summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... decided to challenge myself by painting the iconic MIT dome with a limited ... brown mush. And without a ruler, I had to be confident with my linework

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  to alignment, so even a tiny misalignment (e.g., from breathing too ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note ... to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of ... "), which has been a really cool way to explore how satellites work at my own

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E ... entirely finished but we are finished, and it’s enough to scrape an A. I live

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  lorde made my nyc itinerary and i started blogger beef?

  

  meeting where Caleb M. '27 and I had a heated argument over who had the better Lorde concert experience (he was ahead of me in line and closer to ... . But today, dear readers, I raise you a new level of Lorde devotion. In

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 22, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  . instead, i bike to the dining hall at maseeh through a pitch-black outfinite ... dream happily. are you talking to someone? a professor or classmate or roommate or friend? as i’m writing this, i’m talking to a few friends who

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  wall makes me feel old. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel old? Well, I, as a prematurely wizened twentysomething, can tell you ... weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to ... -Lab is. This one's a nice overview. I'm too sleepy to add much to them at ... I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... swear) for eight years at a time, but finals were busy, and summer came

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  , who is a more educated but less devout Kelly Clarkson fan than I am ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... meals a day and undoing an entire month's worth of exercise. Bring it on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  bridges and become the first Asian pop star to succeed in America. A few ... It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on ... labeled the Korean Justin Timberlake and the Korean Usher, is a serious and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  IVMIT candygram to support a missionary trip to the Dominican Republic ... : "Oh. Admitting any?" Matt: "Yeah, a few, I guess. Well, I've got to go ... It was a music-filled, and unfortunately not work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005