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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  saw Wicked on opening night with two friends (Caitlin O. ‘25 and Oris S. N. ‘23), and I went absolutely FERAL. I have been waiting for this ... , and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014.']LITERALLY 10 YEARS

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind ... and spend more time at home, or travelling. Some of my friends are doing ... to teach high school students. I applied for externships and GTL, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and won $15 ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek ... insight into each game and figure out how much luck played into my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... this project had me SHOOK. I got Minecraft a week ago and had never ... Mass Ave. I headed toward the Student Center and veered left to approach

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... problem sets and projects with them, live with them, cook with them, play ... you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... required 2 considered? And does MIT (and other colleges) accept the new Internet based TOEFL? In order: Both are important (and required). / Not as

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and ... only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it ... (sentimental knick knacks, random notebooks and folders, maybe even my social

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently ... 's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... vary year to year, and to be perfectly honest, 2013's admit rate could be

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  my first one this past semester and finished it over the summer ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in Portugal. Here’s a quick look at some highlights from the project—and what a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... went downstairs and took full advantage of the free breakfast buffet. And ... *, quite eerily. We talked, and then I had to run off to lunch.   As it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  tried setting up a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu but I messed it up and corrupted my Windows installation and left myself without a bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  worse. States and schools shut down across the country. Federal “stay ... state with [annotation note="footnotes and words in italics are commentary ... content warning: this post is about covid-19, and the stress and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  . That it would really suck to stay so attached to one university and miss ... . Maybe you went, "wow, is this title yet another bad pun?" And indeed, it ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  coding and then give you some resources so you can too.\n") def history ... they were mostly text, links, and pictures. So I made an account on Freewebs to built my first website using their drag-and-drop website builder

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;/impressively></p> <p>AND Now, Ladies And Gentlemen, For Your Viewing Pleasure ... of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... . Spelling out "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" takes a while. Nowadays

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to ... Period (better known as IAP - learn more about it here, here, and here ... ="116487" /]   So yea I somehow learned how to snowboard that day and left with a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  coffee, and anxiety. Suddenly, the faint siren song of summer beckons me over and tells me that I need my [annotation note="Boston also has the ... .[/annotation] I drop everything and open up Craigslist.  My dad got our family cat

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  everything and hopefully make academics run more smoothly this year.  So far ... classes and the work way more than last semester--which I guess means I ... a new beginning, even though I still blogged over the summer (and all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  our communal items like pots and tupperware, plus enough room for each ... are full. I have my own big cabinet, and baby... it's like Tetris in ... shopping, and try to defend my hoarder tendencies. You'll have to be the one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  because of its student governance and autonomy. At what other institution do ... , and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the ... . You might notice, as you read this, that I switch between House and Haus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017