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• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  admitted to MIT are admitted to the entire university and may choose any ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139   INTRODUCTION ... ropes, medicine balls, and floor ladders from exercise stations cycling around the room, MIT students collectively sighed and picked up their

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  -semester senior with two classes and a swim test* left between her and graduation: 9.15 - Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission. This is the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... goal of which is community-building and fostering social interaction. If ... had the preconceived notion that many sororities were racist, and I didn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  , filled with 24-bit colors, and baked into pie graphs, just like the kind ... : I spent as much on textbooks this semester as I spent on food*. And ... , soymilk, soup, other liquids, frozen matter, and condiments). Since Fruits

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  Jedi Old Republic. We chatted about the state of New Hampshire and the ... , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches[/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing ... ="at least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states that class starts 5 minutes later and ends 5 minutes earlier than its

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I ... answer. The rules are a bit more complicated than that, and are best ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... notes. most are easy to intuit but difficult to remember and retrieve at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... nagging at you about your SAT scores now and there's still technically one ... , and/or worrying whether your SAT scores are high enough right now (or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is ... it to run it and maintain it, but if there's anything wrong with it, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... my possessions crammed into two suitcases and a million tote bags

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 35 students. A few years ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  gotten comfortable in it’s state of unconsciousness, and hauling yourself ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... ’re not even big things, just little chores here and there. Like taking my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  (Course 9 and Course 6-7) actually submit my concentration completion form ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be ... and several rainstorms from several feet of table and a window away. We worried about flooding (and hosage); meanwhile they withered in the cruel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... (Vamos…); NBA Finals (aww Boston…; next year!); Wimbledon (Rafa!!!); and ... and all the fans in pandemonium of national pride is pretty exciting – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  . Let's take a look around 54-100. Shiny and state of the art. I did a ... 't take MY word for it. Read on. It's 12 units like most classes here and it meets 2-3:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lecture and some time on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006