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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  my closest friends from high school, Liz Z. A collection of articles ... me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  Student Profiles from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... engaged in real-world issues. Since the posting of the last blog featuring [annotation note="Department of Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  month. My last year at MIT, I spent most of it ignoring school work and ... start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  until school started. The first week or so was a lot of walking around ... list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  human being who has dreamt of being an admissions blogger since August ... deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... -pitch run-down of the intro blog is “Cambridge has no fields or horses or ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming. Its new number is 6.101, but I ... ="Introductory Biology. Fulfills one of the General Institute Requirements that students

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th ... ="last time I checked"]a human being,[/annotation] so I know the discomfort of waiting all too well. It's easy to sink into a sea of anxiety and focus on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  scary as hell. So what do I want to be when I grow up? Part of me is ... is the uncertainty? Polymers, believe it or not, involve a lot of ... school and polymers and cats.   There's a great future in plastics

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest ... unable to speak as he staggered into the trainer's room. This problem of ... is a small clip that attaches to any piece of head-word athletic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  some reason, a school full of engineers has some serious problems with ... where it just rains. This week is one of them. It has been raining pretty ... it as a shell jacket too, because it can rain any time of year (as

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  , Secondary School Report and Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing ... weeks of reading to be done, so as long as you get us the copies in a ... that all documents include your name and date of birth on each page. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... , and you will be moved to produce poetry. Clearly, both schools are ... about Cambridge students is that few things stand in their way of enjoying

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  time. [annotation note="don't worry, the thermo will be high school ... thermodynamics[/annotation] because it is one of three (3!) midterms I have on ... around like other parts of chemistry. Instead, we just say these properties

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... occasionally found rusty nails, broken glass, and bits of pottery we thought were Native artifacts, but which in hindsight were just fragments of floor tiles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  first two weeks of school.    ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  . Actually, there were a lot of moments this whole school year that felt like ... ; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling ... living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official ... official transcript from your school counselor on your Applicant Status page