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  Admitted Students Meetings… I hope you'll attend the event near you.

  

  Each spring Educational Counselors all over the world hold events for admitted students. The events are designed to provide you and your families ... of meetings is posted within the Admitted Students Portlet of your My

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late-night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  just like in high school presentations (rate the speaker on a scale of 1 ... After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... design. That the designers of this project trust me to such an extent is ... The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  engineers working on the project, I got the really fun task of designing the ... ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... movements. Jebby helped with a group designing a smart walker with crash

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  majors, and plenty of funny stories from high school or exciting future ... Student Days or something similar). It’s a weekend of mythic proportions--3.14 days filled with student-run events, and one of MIT’s most iconic

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  parts of the design are raster prints (basically tracing the design into ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course ... -year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... some of the subjects the rest of your coursework will likely build upon

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexual appeal to offer them do they finally treat me as one of them. That I ... tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  = Lighting Design; 21G.501 = Japanese 1; 14.73 = The Economics of World Poverty ... spend time with them. Lots of people say choose two: school, friends ... Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  Neha is a male) was the team leader of FIRST at her school, and basically ... take BC Calculus. At my school, they don't offer the class, however I can ... school's policy is. (A friend of mine at RISD, where they have a very firm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007