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• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... software interviews, and hanging out with a bunch of coders is always fun ... , writing a review of how exquisitely the unexpected cocoa notes complemented

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  accompanied by a frustrating mass of release forms. Regardless, it is my hope ... practices, a capella rehearsals, study sessions, and much more. Right next to ... , which is fine, since there's a Shaw's grocery store pretty close to campus

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  revolutionize the way colleges advertise. MIT is no longer a photoshopped ad, it ... . The goal is to try to show a bit of everything. To be fair, 12 students ... necessary. POTENTIAL APPLICANTS: MIT is a wonderful school. It is difficult

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... almost didn't want to eat them.   But as much as Seattle is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... !) ...but I discovered from trial of fire that six classes is A LOT - I took ... biology is a tremendously good idea and one of best decisions I made here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  . The school's mission is to prepare its students, that arrive a few ... program coordinators. Speaking of sycophancy, Jon '06 is a lead tutor for ... useful, except how to be a hosted prefrosh. Jon and my host lived on Conner

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  assume everyone you meet is more than ready to hop right into a ... you ever had that feeling where you have so much going through your head ... are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  , Kevin is amazed with how much he’s learned in such a short amount of time ... observe a fish is to become a fish.’” He took a class this semester on ... If you’ve ever seen Glee, you know that Breadsticks is the token

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  a description elsewhere: The Emoji Compass is an alethiometer for the ... talk a little bit about why they decided to spend so much time on this ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a ... ’t require avoiding addressing how the Institute pushes a culture of stress and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  asked: How much time does a sport at MIT really take up? I'm sure you ... group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found ... 's response. I WANT IT. (My birthday is January 10th.) Right now I'm supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  hole mass. The observation is of a familiar source named SS 433 -- a ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  application, I couldn't tell you for sure how much of a factor your high school ... basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... send in a resume listing my community service? Because I've done so much

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... with Ernesto we've decided to plan the whole trip today. This is a day of ... is how I prefer to do it. Go through all of the notes and summarize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  letting us know how much you love MIT, and regret that we did not have more ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year, our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has ... with just bread. I cannot express how much I love bread; it brings me deep satisfaction like no other [annotation note=" yes bread is a meal

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  , but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The course is a psychological overview of what happiness entails, but a significant component of it is the ... metrics to heart that much, but it is evident that I feel more productive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it ... It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... other than that it is very much an experience more than it is a show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013