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• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... get a copy of some book shipped to them. i picked the unbearable ... time in my three years of joining code jam, i won a shirt. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... birds, took my first creative writing class, and learned how to make a ... experience. This year was different, however. It was rewarding in a new, scary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To ... ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... …or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the ... not, Orientation is also a great opportunity to learn about internships

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  wonderful and free as the Edgerton Shop, the only catch is that you have to ... Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash ... stuck this piece of aluminum on the mill. A mill is essentially this fancy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I ... can still take 18.01, or 18.01A, which reviews 18.01 in just six weeks

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  really is. I traveled - at the end of 2022, I flew in a full circle around ... 'm forced to spend it in a way that I feel is meaningful. This includes ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  fact, theatre has helped me become a much more effective engineer. How ... entire prod staff on my side. How do you make a picture in your mind come ... What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  ? A lot of power is vested in individual groups and people to make ... some of my thoughts about it: A lot of the story is pretty much ... universe. Teams fix a device in the intro round to access the MMO. Power is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety ... was back in my hometown in NH, playing a knock-down-drag-out game of ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much ... One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  in the virtual environment and not have a clue how to reach out to ... In mid-November, a [annotation note=undergraduate association ... writing to comedy and, uh, culinary, which is a testament to the interesting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  a pset-test-class kind of way. More in a let-me-absorb-as-much ... months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  in East Campus, First East has a FFT (Free Food Table). Anything on the table is up for grabs. In this case, my 119th birthday cake (it's not a ... things. Back in the day (circa 1890), this is how MIT Admissions worked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  think in many ways reflects his individuality and personality, and is a ... member of MIT in August 2014 (yes we share a name; his middle name is my ...   You’ve probably heard this a million times in various

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... from drugs is worth the destruction of everything else, from a strictly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA ... are about 8 others) and a Resident Associate Advisor (RAA), who is an upperclassman that helps run the seminar and is a resource if you ever have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you don't. In times of stress and disappointment and anxiety, we forget how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019