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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... !!! :-) Yes, the folks who read and evaluate international applications are very ... showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by ... between the end of the semester and the start of IAP. we use the entire ... and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  , jumping, and looking oh-so-adorable. [caption id="attachment_115256" align ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... design a circuit board. And that's where 2.679: Electromechanical Systems

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  note="Simmons Dining's quality really fell off a cliff this semester, and ... do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... out and eat at some actual restaurants near MIT. Plus, Simmons Dining

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a ... semesterly UROP evaluation form. And so, with the same regret I’ve felt the previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from ... I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the ... severely cracked. I pressed power and a half-centimeter-wide line lit up; the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I ... habits, and also to show frosh and prospective future frosh how free food culture can be [annotation note = "though y'all who experienced CPW and REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A ... concerned when I opened the rice bag one day and something came flying at me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... this past IAP. If you'd rather abandon structure and float through IAP ... unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... during which i highkey forgot what i was supposed to be talking about and

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... dressed, and collecting my books, an hour has passed. How did that take an ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!  

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... -catching, professional, and seem as if they were made by someone who isn't the person ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... blogs are not a partisan platform, and our office is not a partisan policy ... , including Wikipedia, reddit, Reports Without Borders, Google, Mozilla, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  been covered with plywood and then heavy-duty plastic sheeting, covering every inch of carpet. Tools are everywhere: most of them neatly piled and sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and ... someone every month or so. Statistically, if you have 500 friends, and .5 ... , and the average human arm length is around 2.1 feet, and you point at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... - Project Interphase. *Summer is quickly approaching, and I’m guessing you ... before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  goods and bads of freshman year, what do you have to say about mit now? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel comfortable talking about it, but what's your grade like so far at mit (1st and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006