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• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -system-simulating nerds. I've run into a lot of people, both at and outside of MIT, who say ... did for class at the end of last semester, but I'm going to put it here ... a solar system, as an academic exercise. Meanwhile at home: Anyway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  beach to watch the sunset on. 20 minutes of driving later, we arrived at ... to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish. our journey started at a Starbucks drive-through, where someone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  a rain of pastries. Or the secret to being good at and/or actually ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  As you know, MIT regular action admissions decisions will be released on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT). Some of you, though, may be wondering -- what's the deal with Tau? Well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  of Admissions. Such requests are usually granted (indeed, often ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  towards the exit. I was fed up with Paris at the end of it all. Though I ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with ... , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  of Mount Rainier. The larger meadow at the top of the mountain felt ... -up rock of the mountain--gray, rusty read, even turquoise in places. At one ... I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... , "Each year, bleary-eyed students wake up early to be at the head of the ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... ="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... of bloggers. This year,[annotation note="nice"]69[/annotation] people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  plan, at the start of my junior year, I  scheduled 6.0002 for senior fall ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013