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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... like how Kellen wrote a whole blog waxing poetic about failing, but never ... Sun"![/caption] MIT Spinning Arts is a performing arts group that spins

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it ... 3rd, I didn't see much there). there's a lounge on the second floor ... everyone thinks this is a niche spot, but half of campus has worked here. fun

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , this blog is mostly about a really cool lounge, though I thought it was ... .']but much has changed since then.[/annotation]One thing that's changed is ... 308. The Cheney Room is a lovely space, and if you want to learn about

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... feel like this is a good example of what most of your freshman year looks ... . -- I've learned how to board a plane. I've struggled through three years

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  affect students on potentially magnitudes greater. How about “Zeus is a ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... a stereotypical manly man who is tough, risk-taking, and does weight

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... about how "elegant" a math proof was, or how "neat and interesting" the ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Claire S. '25 is a Computation & Cognition (6-9) major from ... best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... that much?? This year, a friend and I took advantage of the deal and went

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... or even evolving something realistically; I think it is mostly a ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that ... undergraduates are juggling multiple tasks haikubot it is a fact which chemists

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  consumption algorithm". Time complexity is a measure of how long a program (or ... and answers were: Q: What is a word starting with "E" that describes ... “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... is most worried about: will I be able to maintain a high GPA at MIT ... ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay ... trying to answer a question? If we don't conclude, how are they going know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... exactly is this Robby fellow?” which might then prompt descriptions of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a ... linking my entire previous post. This is the MIT ESP team: We're a group ... they happen, who the students are, how large it is, and how long it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  little exercise. It's a timesaver, too, since my morning workout is wrapped ... might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and ... internationally. BNB runs a bike shop and teaches kids how to fix bikes so they have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full ... Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... undergraduate education is characterized by a flexibility and openmindedness that

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... year, I was a Potential New Member (PNM), which, as the name suggests, is someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011