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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  hours gossiping, telling funny and awkward stories, and trying to solve ... applying to MIT or what? Just curious. The hours between 5 and 7 are reserved ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  I did a comedy set* in front of 1000 MIT admits and everything else that happened at this year’s CPW opening ceremony

  

  hours later and be fine. Instead, as a Young Adult who is starting to ... and then proceeded to sleep through a 3 hour evening class with ... retired to bed at 10pm and waking up to the chirp of the birds or whatever

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  haven't even begun. I've taken to running for an hour and then being ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia link embedded above...) More importantly, however, let's discuss "The ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Equity Officer, to guide us in this effort. For now: I take hope in turning ... day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... . Earlier today, President Reif sent the following email to all faculty, staff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  guide to submitting letters of recommendations, as it answers most of the ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  [which would turn out to be a very important mistake later].  They open ... Leader. This meant that I helped prepare campus to welcome the ~1,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  . Most importantly, we needed each other to stay sane and focused and happy ... reason, decides to take on, even if it means losing a few hours of sleep ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  .org/topics/life/student_life_culture/valentines_day_special_1.shtml) and continued to run into her with increasing frequency until ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... road to cozy summer skylines, breezy sunsets, and barely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  -hour panel discussions - and, to be blunt, I enjoyed the second a lot ... ...(which is) very important. Then, in order to influence or impact ... responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you want to spend all the time you can indoors where it's warm. This makes you sleepy. Freshman fall feels like the most socially important

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college. Naturally, when I got to campus two weeks ago, one of my first priorities was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  part on a solid modeling program, import that file to a CAM program which ... there lots of CNCs? Is it okay to use the shop in the wee hours of the ... efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  was wonderful. Your son is lucky to have you. Leadership is important ... from the international mail's speed, but due to the very poor mail system here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  telling us to go to office hours "as little as possible" because too often ... I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has occurred since ... completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  which were important to me at another time, hit me hard. I’d forgotten the ... hours straight. We talked about many things: what people were up to, names ... , this combing of the past to tell me what is important to my present. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• 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

  

  really difficult for me because I had to be on camera for an hour and a ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... professor over Zoom and made a habit of showing up to her virtual office hours

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  to the history, growth, and, most importantly, the culture of MIT. The ... I want to keep the intro to this post pretty short because the ... as a participant-observer at MIT and find a fresh way to present your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012