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  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8.07 received a free copy of The Maxwellians on the first day of lecture. On the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... institution in the world and it feels like I've made nothing of it. Three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended ... extreme poverty a thing of the past? Why do some countries grow fast and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  last year from my dorm in the west side of campus to my classes in the ... intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester ... , my classes for the GEL program are relatively free of curveballs when ... standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now ... here. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already ... , and go crush the rest of your college applications this cycle. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my ... some of my favorite spots in the area! Kendall Square Area 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  Alton suggests in his "In the Bulb of the Night" episode, the leftover oil ... DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think" by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, "I saw the best minds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  past, all of the bloggers you see here on this site have applied using ... home everywhere I go. I grew up in and just outside the bustling city of ... York to be my home, I do still see it as the place of my hometown, of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  and north of Connecticut and east of New York and west of the Atlantic ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  ="aligncenter" width="250"] the Charles somewhere west of Harvard: the inaugural photo ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of-the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don ... for their rant.) This is also true of food; I like to eat the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... all!) fully enjoying the anonymity of the Internet as I subtly brainwash

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... of dedicated letter of sorts to the prefrosh since I've had a lot of ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006