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  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  've loved going to the zoo since before I can remember, and if I couldn't be a ... because I'm funded through Morgan's RIKEN grant, as you can see from this ... I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  managed to get someone from the writing department to vouch for me so I GOT ... with wires and Arduino for a few hours, which I think is super fun and ... hours of homework a week. It’s going to destroy me and I literally can

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  out a call for artists.  I saw the call for artists on dormspam and I ... Project provides a view into MIT from the student’s perspective. I think ... ., Sruthi P., Shardul C., Jimmy K., Laura C. I can't speak for the rest of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  be in a space where I could see my impressions of my peers’ work ... now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  amount of time to classes every moment where I could have fun was a nice ... organizational method works for you. Oh, and did I mention it's also about having ... survived, and I'm pretty sure I passed" about a semester at MIT was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  particularly tedious. we don't have classes for the next week and a half, so we ... high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  someone has a problem, we can't stop ourselves from helping. There is no ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... and as I walked back from the exam two hours later, I thought about what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... months ahead. Here are a handful of tips I have for anyone who applies to ... being connected to MIT has provided for me. But most of all, I miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  extended family and where we come from, my school, a music group... but I ... thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... from studying urban planning + CS: I like maps, took a bunch of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent ... useful for my internship. I know I haven't explained much about my project ... have a pretty decent idea of where things are. The highlight of the night

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this ... about a student's essay I had read the day before about the India ... world. The application reading process continues. Right now, I'm taking a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I ... laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... was going to be a day where I suddenly stopped being scatterbrained and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  remain on the wait list. Can you tell me where I am on the wait list? No ... here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about ... the exact yield will be this year. Can you tell me where my

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for ... here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Called a "not and" door[/caption] It turns out that you can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  stickers. i'd been saving space for stickers from all four years at MIT, so ... "]Bomber[/annotation] merch, so i was psyched about getting it. a senior from the floor printed ... session. even though i ended up not applying for the program, i'm a weeb and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was ... you, far beyond where you currently stand. For the longest time I believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  normal MIT classroom (it looks a lot like the room where I took 18 ... room for the press conference and posed for pictures with Diamond. I ... from a red-eye flight from New Zealand via San Francisco; the prize was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  gathered on Kresge Lawn for a typical, fun picnic. And by “typical” I mean ... was “I am going to make shelf labels so I can finally know where all my ... my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  yesterday's entry for, well, more pictures. I, I can remember standing by ... busy city square across from a Chinese restaurant, and I would definitely ... picture of a broken chains statue that I saw on a postcard. You can normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006