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• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  , no one ever uses her. That means that whenever you call her, you can ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  decision applications. I can only tell you to be yourself. MIT wants to hear the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to ... about that stuff. It provides much-needed context that can often set you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  subject is that while not every building at MIT might look "good" to you in ... , very different from buildings you see elsewhere. That's more than I can ... canoeing. See, creatures really can live in the Charles. See, people at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  play Guitar Hero -you can't take anything into the GRE testing area, including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you ... DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a ... those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  *gettingallthepiledupworkdoneafteranentireweekendofhavingtoomuchfun*cough* :P As usual, let any of us know if we can help you in any way to make ... them as guest blogs! Don't worry too much about format - I can help you ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means ... on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... . Nothing gold can stay. etc. etc. etc.  We obviously couldn’t leave without

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  leaving for the day :-) They both looked kind of tired, but as you can tell ... I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... telling you not to worry, to think about other things, to just trust that it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  internship, so I shouldn't really be writing an entry, and I definitely can ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at ... I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] The cat can also make the door close[/caption] You can use ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Called a "not and" door[/caption] It turns out that you can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  this EA decision. It may not feel like it if you get in, and you're not ... , and try to remember to take care of yourself because you can't keep ... you to apply to MIT in the first place – wherever you go. And I believe

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  international students.   As you can see by the photos, this was a grueling ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas said, "Let's Get it Started in Here". (DISCLAIMER: Do not assume that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... was taken in the fall, courtesy of Olay '09, another CME student. For

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  can't really see in Boston), ran around in the snow, etc. And ... miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... even in front of other people? You’re not weak for crying. Tier 2: Oh ... ’re constantly anxious in this house with all of your friends in Maine. Maybe you

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  what you can change later because people always have the ability to learn ... to think outside of absolutes is something that can really help you to ... lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  Tube channel and you can actually watch the first one here right now. I ... this since it's still going on. You can watch the vlogs so far here: Day ... -time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  test itself auto-grades as you submit code, so you can constantly monitor how you are doing. This is nice because you can keep trying until your ... test case makes me forget the hours it took in the first place. Instant

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021