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FAQ / Transfer
What does MIT consider for transfer admission?
—one year each of college-level calculus and calculus-based physics. Depending ... . Beyond academic preparation, competitive applicants have made the most of -
Blog / People & Identities
[guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26
Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture -
Blog / Athletics
self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems
warning: mentions of anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks. please ... story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the story’s climax, he introduces the idea of self-destruct commands - since -
Blog / How to Human
hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger
three major hikes to speak of, plus one noteworthy run: [caption id ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is. I was ... . I imagine my head contained a lot of static. If this were a lifestyle -
Blog / Uncategorized
field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others
unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my ... by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things -
Blog / Summer
what i’m up to this summer doing all the things
and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... the disastrous combination of boring and detail-oriented—but every year -
Blog / People & Identities
Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection
aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I -
Blog / Challenges
yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”
the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... beats, unlike almost all other figures. the rest of the dance had -
Blog / Academics & Research
Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,
seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive -
Blog / Internships & Externships
tuesday another blog about an ordinary day
've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post ... of my working day revolves around said specific terms. also, because ... lot of software specific terms. to be fair to both groups, i'll try and -
Blog / Classes
just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon
light comes in bright blue around the edges of my windowshade, and my room ... on MITConfessions. 9.35 - 9.45 am: i reluctantly get out of bed ... all"]kitchen[/annotation]and eat my traditional weekday breakfast of -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play
making any of that happen because it was something that future me would handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I -
Blog / MIT Life
My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....
, where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take care of myself. I went to mental health & counseling at 10am, and I ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got -
Blog / MIT Life
Did you know about this? This is big.
, a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of -
Blog / Admissions
A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.
I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of ... for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus -
Blog / Academics & Research
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.
classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of -
Blog / Academics & Research
First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending
because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today, we have the privilege of dissecting the first term of my freshman year ... was going downhill pretty quickly, so I spent a lot of time fighting -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus, Part 1
Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... , after the winter/Christmas break). Regardless of schedules, MIT dorms are ... Campus dormitory; he moved his stuff in August of 1996, and didn't move his -
Blog / Announcements
Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!
hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of ... cherishes the identities built into the squares and streets of Boston, and