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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  of my blogtastic tenure, you may find that I tend to describe concepts ... collections of squiggly pencil lines. I won't lie: I'm going to be spending a ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15, wrote that prodigious children need to develop a "reasonably thick skin" - to feel they aren't demonized and will find a niche, but not to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  all agreed to a voting process, where a certain percentage of present ... as a prefrosh and wanting one like Sam wants Ina Garten.) Wow, way to ... past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... decided to skip 18.022 lecture on a whim to go to CVS with my friend to pick up her meds. Is skipping 18.022 generally a bad idea? Probably. But to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  Admissions Blogs: a wholesome, geeky corner of the internet similar to ... a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is ... that, and I hopefully would have figured out a way to make that work. Do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my ... into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check ... such a valuable experience to me can be summed up by the word opportunity

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  strongly urge the president and Congress to find a path that better serves us ... urge Trump and the Congress to find a sound, stable legislative path to ... openness to talent, and a long tradition of national service — I believe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you ... Feynman MIT '39) A Pep Talk from Kid President to You from Soul

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... looking to hire almost exclusively freshmen to maintain a balance between

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... for a couple weeks it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us ... perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  backwards to figure out when I would need to finalize a list of pies, select ... Simmons ballpit pie. After that, I was a bit stuck. Should I try to ... , or just focus on a few? To delay the inevitable need to make a decision

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  -thirds of the way into book 3 of a practical guide to evil. i went on lots of ... find it fun, right? if i had free time, i wouldn't explicitly choose to ... in a while you may want to discard specific cards to trigger other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  computer graphics, we were able to find a supervisor that was likewise so ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea ... Charles River. And I can't help but think that it's a beautiful day to bid

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  to be involved in all of them, short of finding a way to clone myself ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... application to apply as a visiting student. Instead, individual faculty members must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... drink's ancient history for a cultural perspective to recreate Lassi. I ... extended family and where we come from, my school, a music group... but I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I ... that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... $60, and even a set of overlaying stickers, to convert a normal keyboard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  locations where each player (in a virtual game of hide and seek) chose to hide ... where I hypothesize about a trend in the data, do an analysis to ... the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... where the definitions came from on a deeper level. I know why we know ... experimentation, and no one has any clue why they work. I'm hoping to find that out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020