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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... . Like, I can enjoy it, but I do it more for the end than the means. Given the choice of someone cooking for me or I cook, I'd almost always prefer

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  change the way you think about writing. I keep Orwell's rules for writing ... .   But the same is true for college essays, as Orwell doubtlessly ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  is not that I myself am not the gender I've been assuming for the past ... people you know are going to be your classmates for the next four years ... mistake them for the opposite gender. But if you do, don't worry - everyone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  . Don't spend your time looking for the Admissions back door. No matter ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , the more I get the "yeah, r-i-g-h-t" look. So let's try another tactic

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... hope for myself and the world as a freshman and sophomore and regrettably ... prepare myself for the abrupt goodbye, where one day, we will all get up and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  ? How do students make time for research during the academic year, or do ... thinking over memorizing in the physics classes? Yes. At least for the intro ... ? If you look at the math department course catalog, you'll notice

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Admitted Students A quick update.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into their MyMIT portal for new content, including a Class of 2010 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this fresh comments space for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  wrote: "I think I'll ask the admissions office to consider me for ... difficulties trying to save money for the SAT and TOEFL exams. At last, I have the required sum, but there are no free dates for TOEFL till early

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  . My saving grace for the past few weeks has been MIT time. Every class ... here. I’ve started to use Google Calendar for the first time, and now ... -dilated, where I stop and think for a second and look back at how much has passed

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... -purpose computer is the CPU – a device responsible for fetching and executing program ... ’re often used for simulating and verifying ASIC designs before the designs

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of ... my senior year as practice for the PSAT on October 17. No test prep, no ... . The one thing I always had going for me was that I was very involved in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  this year are like a seaweed dryer for the Dominican Republic, and a ... rural areas of Ghana, or a solution for the waste of the Aguaje fruit in ... the Center for Constructive Communication where I work on developing a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  UROP mentors. The best way to treat the Impostor Syndrome for me was to ... -off for an A might be 90%, or 70%, or lower, or higher, depending on the ... . For many, if not most, the General Institute Requirements are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and ... cream for the first time. Was not disappointed.     Don ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  as well as i’d like to. i am still looking for the right frameworks to ... brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... fall and winter of 2020, and the spring of 2021, i didn’t exercise for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  of precession and calculate capacitance for fun, squashing the less ... greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student, to answer the physics questions. Not so bad you say? Sure, I'll go for

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the MIT experience over two days. You can find the application for this ... engineering looked like.  On the last day of WISE, Daymé and Asia took a cute ... of myths both Daymé and Asia had. For Asia, “the reasons [she] thought

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  inspired by Alan's browser archaeology post, I started looking at the ... then, looking at the over 1500 tabs open, that I realized that I had ... to hang in my room for the fall! how-to-dormspam. probably for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024