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  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was an amazing school academics-wise but I was tentative about adding that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]interpreter[/annotation] for a programming language called snek, which is a dialect of LISP. But ... ."]what if we used one of these languages instead?[/annotation] All of these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... , sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green flower attached... it must have been made of something sweet, chocolate or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  Poetry and Advanced Toy Design. I got a B- in my HASS class, Forms of ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... of a high school experience I'll never get back. Science bowl isn ... of my high school days.

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... I enjoy outside of school. Still, these couldn't suffice for social ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  . Last fall, equipment designers from Specialized, one of the leading high ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... section of Singapore. I had been really guilty about not devoting enough

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  school too. I remember spending the majority of my sophomore and junior ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  design and validation of the electronics, and those worked, too. I feel ... parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part of the project — there were vital sections of the project that I never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Internet filtering in public schools and libraries as part of an broader ... continuing this kind of research since I finished grad school as a way to stay ... mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  applications comes even as the number of graduating high school seniors held ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007