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• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT ... place in the Top 200 in Math/Chem olympiads in high school? Thanks for ... " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... -slickers we apparently are, and decided to head for warmer climates for the summe... er, to more well-lit, people-filled places for the night. You

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  . You could look past the river and see the highway, make out the logos ... train for cross country in the off-season. The new house was in a “better ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  mentioning my paper: "By the way, take a look at the comment for the paper 4 ... “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  straight is exhausting sometimes, but other times I look at the signals on my ... everything people handwrite for me: a note on the front page of a novel, For ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  the books for me and just tell me the most important/interesting bits ... project I've been working on for the past two ish years and want to try to ... disappointed by what the paper will look like. There's just so much more I could

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  -in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a ... experiences for the PREFROSH! Our CPW begins with the Costco run of a lifetime ... better for the prefrosh that come after us. Because we are excited to meet

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  I’m writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can access it here. You can review the dates and deadlines for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  watched the flames grow, it struck me for the first time that I really wasn ... satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... deep of the Charles River. We enjoyed the view of Boston for awhile, then

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... housemasters invite you to their apartments for tea. The fresh faces and ... yourself on the back a couple more times for spending all that time preparing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent ... that they would suggest for the Admin to revert the current situation or ... ’s opening for a teach-in and rally because we know MIT can do better. At the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  the very easy and simple meals I put together for myself. Also, for ... supplies, ice cream, and a couple of snacks on the way. For dinner, I ate ... eyeballed everything to my tastes. Though it doesn't look the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I ... .” My family rejoiced, my friends cheered. Looking back, I can’t believe ... : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred Open thread for deferred students.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs for students who have been deferred. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  * humane, capable *and* considerate, etc. the ring is not necessary for this ... .   This is still true for me; I hope it will be true for the Class of ... for grabs to a degree few still among the living have ever seen. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  the delicious dishes that people have cooked up. For Conner 2, my floor ... clear the M does not stand for anything else, contrary to what my floor ... to get the tradition going early. For our first Floor Frosh Social

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

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

  

  been beaten, what does the future of Tetris look like?  For Classic ... trigger the game crash.  [Kayode stumbles over his words looking for the ... everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024