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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  that I had worked there instead of the sprawling industrial shrine of ... ha Netherlands" when they walk by because this point is seriously not ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  little less. However, I will assume that Swedish transvestites are not ... the frenzied atmosphere within, but not really. As I said in one of my ... . Luckily, Wikipedia shows it as an example of his work. A lot of early

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  spout one-liners about passion and hard work. I have been known to mention ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... syllables. That's not why I applied. Sure, it was part of it -- I knew MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  blag post (true frandship!). We're kind-of-not-really-working in the ... ’re not doing it because you particularly want something out of someone, but ... not easy--when we’re around people we don’t know that well, we tend to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  cable cars. Do you know how cable cars work? One of the very first things ... , but in all of our opinions a little overrated and not nearly as good as ... only be settled experimentally. Conclusion: it was not comfortable. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  and the application readers to be careful not to fall into trap of ... to fall into, but we try hard not to let prejudices take over. Do recognize that you may not connect with everyone, but even if you don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  not the most well-known cellists ever. Ask anyone to name a cellist and ... music. He even appeared on an episode of Arthur once, and if that's not ... , he had also worked closely with Ben Bloomberg, a PhD student at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  skip this post if you’re not feeling well   ted chiang’s short ... me from falling asleep but not so loud that it warrants me coming out ... -tier athlete many times more fit than me, can have his heart stop working

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  , the market was also cash-only, and we had not brought enough [annotation ... about an hour of work a week; because of this, most classes are twelve ... the corners of my time. This is not to say that I don't care for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  liked making things and working in lab and I decided I'd be a BME major ... wanted to attend and the 6.7% acceptance rate was most definitely not my ... would not apply to MIT because I wanted to ED Johns Hopkins' BME program

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  , really. we now wear masks going into dining. i am not sure if i am ... contest, you only see results for the small data and not the large data, so ... thought my solution would have also worked for the large data. my solutions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  groups, and did some square dancing. the way square dancing works is that ... was a nice surprise. i’m not a classical music geek like my friends are ... then, and then, it was midnight, and i was walking home, and i worked on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  jealous because her daughter was not as academically skilled. I'd also ... MIT but not being the next Nobel laureate. Tell them that it doesn ... -it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to-stop. The second one works better as you get older because people are less

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Norse, Middle Welsh*, and Greek. *Did NOT know that that was A Thing ... my arms. Woah. There are six of us in this class, and it is not for ... take a science writing class. Learning to communicate your work to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  , and it's not always easy to determine who made them. And, face it - in ... ), consensus is not easy. I think living in the dorm fostered a certain sense of ... not pick up after themselves or be as tidy as they might with their

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a miscommunication with a German ticket officer that ended up with me not reserving a ... work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , hard work, clever solutions, and technical prowess. We do not respect ... we are at this crazy school on the Charles and what we're not. We are ... direction. He might even walk with you to your destination. (This only works

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  work on a simulated robotic arm that can detect and stack cups into a pyramid. Spoiler: it works! We aren't controlling the bot; it's moving by ... . Whether I actually improved or not is up for debate. I couldn't decide what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  working as soon as the WiFi goes out ([annotation note="Ironically, most ... , against all odds, worse than the Bevi machine. The sensor doesn’t quite work ... Bevi works. If you’ve used a Bevi machine after July 2020, you’ve likely

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023