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  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... lived in Madison and camped with me at Devil's Lake when I was a baby, so ... , and I would do the whole thing again in a heartbeat — the missed Friday

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  : Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with the appearance of a ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... into reality. I'm not sure if I believe in that. What I do believe in is ... , and I lived in Simmons, so I had to cross a tower and go down two floors

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... 'll admit the line is a bit fuzzy in some cases. Consider, for example, 12 ... In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are ... , my parents were planning on going to a wedding in Korea and decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still ... stations in the Cambridge-Boston area, is subsidized by MIT, a perk available ... Pike. In a world where attention seems split and starved, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  think your job sucks. Just fyi. Ben: My job is 11.6% best-job-in ... your weekends, a rough estimate says your job is ~65.27% awesome. Work is ... Update for Admitted students: We've been hearing reports that a few

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... words in a day or two. [caption id="attachment_113806" align

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at ... 10 (not a clue what they were rating, exactly...how awesome we looked ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  all in perspective, is that MIT is not an end but a beginning. I'm aware ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  . Jacobs is also a former MIT graduate student and faculty member. I don't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT ... I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005