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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  admit something. This post was originally just going to answer the first ... turns out that I'm not the first person to figure this out. When I was ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn ... allows faster cyclists to pass. Every major stoplight has a smaller set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... . And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: Essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  to New York I went. But first, what exactly is the biennial? From ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson, who holds meetings on or near registration day to discuss potential

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  one at a time. First, I read the application components. I try to ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... ... Anonymous asked, "are you definitely coming to South Miami, FL on Sept 11 then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  entry. Don't go to China Pearl; it doesn't have a shark fin. The first ... and Steer Clear Ruth ('07), Matt ('08), and I went down to Chinatown ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  onions first be caramelized, or vice versa. There’s no real purpose to ... 18.701 to 701, I keep thinking you’re talking about biology ... is almost orthogonal to the previous discussion” Translation: “This is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  class for the first time turned out to be more fun than I expected. I plan ... call to adventure [caption id="" align="alignright" width="500 ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can ... my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... with the world differently than I used to. Things I used to enjoy kinda

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... then we headed back to our rooms. As we crossed Sixth Street the angelic

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008