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• 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 / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... , and economic forces that enabled these influencers’ rise to prominence ... essayists, as I believe video essays to be the most digestible and accessible

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  extensive, fangirly post about how much i love spotify and its playlist making ... since then, and i have created many new playlists and have even discovered ... listened to and i like, but i'm not sure as to which of my carefully curated

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• 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 / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  . "You could offer to LaTeX them for him," he said, and I nodded, since I ... through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... and Productivity (LMP). This is another lab run by Course 2 (the ... IAP, maybe I'll finally do that) and whenever they take 2.008. 2.670 is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... .2050 – design verification, software-defined radio, and anything else that Joe Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  is really interesting, and in lecture last Wednesday Karger offered ... I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I ... month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... oscilloscopes"]retro CRT-looking[/annotation] display. It was so cute, and I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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 / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  and felt, boxes and tiny army soldiers. I'm sitting at my desk which is covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  and ceiling handles the bus had to offer , I would worry that people ... college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which is unfortunate since I just came back from my second and final one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023