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• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to ... includes a text box for you to update us on anything important that has ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... pizza and Indian food, we raved about how much [annotation note ... mentors[/annotation] and how much we loved the free food. This pizza wasn

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now ... see is a big body of water, there really isn't anything stopping you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  icing on a cake. It looked nothing short of inviting. (Had I known how ... City. Too much Nutella makes you forget it's folded into the crease of a ... I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  ."  Luckily, there is a much lesser known law which states that "every bad thing that ... version of physics or math you take.  All that matters is how much you want ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... 's safety, but it still hurt. It also showed me how much my college experience ... " is that it was an indulgent apocalypse week. I spent so much money on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  this and that. During the year, I keep a box full of scraps of paper ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or ... working on a new project, I'll "think inside the box" so to speak, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn ... this question from someone with a 2.0 GPA, or some similar blatant app ... applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... of your major/that don’t have problemsets due every week is a good way

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is ... one more guess. Secret Santa reveals him or herself, and there is much ... -printed box containing a (real) Venus fly trap *     *     * After dinner and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... lack of group outings and physical entertainment. The service is not much

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  first thing she said was: “Well, a pros and cons list is a very ... mechanical engineering is product development, I’ve gotten to create a lot of ... precise, I’ve encountered so much freedom in engineering. There are a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  writing about the show. World of Wires is such an intriguing show. I did a ... blocked off by a wall of boxes, which were later knocked down. These boxes ... ’s statement a while back about 21M.A12: Freshman Arts Seminar Advising Program

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  Captcha is the box of wavy text at the bottom of the page, just above the ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this ... is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  understand how the physical space of a dorm impacts one's social life. This is ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... social dynamics within a living space shape how students interact with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games ... , and then things become complicated. I'd say it's a better Candy Box ... . Very polished graphics and sound effects. The browser version is only a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  hung from the rearview mirror. Boston is a very small city, but from ... , and I have a room all to myself, and my boxes of things will be there ... that it is not easy, and it shouldn't be. MIT is a colossal change, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  the scenes to see how a fashion show is made. [caption id ... out into something much larger, including a student arts showcase, live music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025