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  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  . Daylight would fade around 4 PM (perhaps the worst aspect of living at the ... was something of a blessing. It offered the opportunity to escape the ... steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Taking aim at MIT Plano West sending 4 students, more than any school ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  the same dorm touch, they merge into one! Note: The order of dorms ... to Threes by Asher Vollmer. You can also play the game at the original link here. (Very) rough counts of windows by dorm (all counted by

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told ... soon I found myself right outside my house at the end of a cool-down walk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  of Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie. I got back to my room ... near Boston Common at about 11:45. I lost the group on the way out of the ... at least. But woe is this Texan on the first day of snow...which could

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  students at MIT?" The bulk of the reading is done by the professional full ... Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... one spends at MIT, there are always new rooms, new lounges, and new

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  Akamai and a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, tells it all - the ... lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a collection of almost 400 videos in its online collection (you can also find it

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  floor of the student center, where I saw Petey. I remember staring at him ... life, I never really made a resolution for New Years. I always kind of ... the oven for my New Year’s party of one (campus is very empty and my mom

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person ... much promise you that. Those who aren't offered admission won't be upset

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  at this point to try new places for dinner every friday night and ... this week from a place a few subway stops north. I mean look at some of ... Saturday, exploring new places for food, and picking out fruit at Haymarket

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . 18-wheeler truck At MIT, most classes count for 12 units of academic ... in real life too – just look at the average number of hours per week in ... multiple of 3, and this holds true for pretty much every class at MIT. But in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... new generation of digitally integrated musical instruments. But hey ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP, here's an example of a cool project: "Sociable Robot Applications ... help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  -Population Data Set Near-Infrared Albedo and Flux Variation of Saturn's Rings at 2 ... with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... '11?), Ilang (Wellesley '09) In case you're wondering, here are some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020