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• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  From Afar, and somehow I find myself here in DC to meet with my ... important changes in policy. This week, his job is to prepare a delegation of ... year olds, expected to become experts in a wide variety of areas often

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... -cancelling headphones that I'd gotten from a summer internship would not connect to my much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  -place. sometimes it consists of a phone screen, where you talk to a recruiter about ... blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... , it is instead extracting myself to a list of personal details, becoming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a ... ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one ... , getting ready to board a train back to Long Island where we will drive many ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... , since there's nothing odd about a mental reply to inanimate objects. MIT ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely ... small great programs. Anyway, I decided to visit AMS sort of as a way to ... haven't been around to post lately.. =) Where will you go?

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  a bear suit pretending to eat a pot of honey. It's Where's Waldo ... , throwing out a yam, giving a spontaneous tour of Random hall to otherworldly ... living room. Home fit like a glove knitted for a three-toed box turtle

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  where i want to work—i stop myself. i try to do something else. read a ... for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  launched - you can find it at aieducation.mit.edu. If you're a student who's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give ... a bug report to the "Done" column on Trello. This might be Stockholm

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  students.) To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit ... decisions online, so if you haven't created a MyMIT account, make sure to ... currently have a MyMIT account and you wish to receive your decision online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week ... and rhetoric (I was a little late to Differential Equations yesterday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  relocation but it would probably be good to bring a friend to move it. Also, it ... 't describe the physical appearance of this fish in such a way as to convey how ... Conner 2 freshman, coming towards us. "Hey Sara, want to go look at a big

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... do great things and you are going to have a wonderful college ... else I can really think to say. I am a firm believer that everything

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  . From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of ... message to a master controller which relays that signal to a motor

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide ... to kindred spirits that they hope to live with. (A note that not all ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and ... long did this take?" "Where did you learn to solder surface

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005