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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a ... these letters from the people who know you best and can advocate most ... curriculum. You should do your best and use your judgment in asking for letters
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  line and made bits go fast bought and killed some green things made new ... the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... , zombies, corpses, and occasionally anthropomorphic animals may sometimes ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  dinner, and then the ensuing food comas, and then the weeklong marathon of leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce.  Sadly, like a lot of ... seeing the little cousins who aren’t quite so little anymore, and most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a ... things at my own pace and liking. British seagulls and pigeons fascinate me ... though, British people eat everything with both a fork and a knife (I only

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  messaging and anything I find vaguely interesting, funny, entertaining, or ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, and

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  semester a little less hellish, and (3) exploring Boston and Cambridge. UROP ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... sandbox, and the software creates an animated topological map that changes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  scrapbook. I am so grateful to love and be loved at MIT. Olivia J '25 and I, likely late to Building 9 for the fourth time that week and probably dying of heat stroke. Marina T '25, Kidus Y '25, and I laying

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  ohms. arranging here refers to the process of taking a song and turning it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and ... soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, sometimes baritone, and bass in order of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  punishment than futile and hopeless labor. You have already ... , and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the ... . At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  had overcommitted myself, a little bit, and yet I went through with it ... Classical Mechanics Study for the biology and chemistry ASE’s Go out into the city and vibe, visit a ton of museums Clean my room and finally

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  minutes away from MIT by foot and dope as hell. There's an upstairs and ... existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... 3rd and spent the majority of the day lugging all our boxes from the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the same, of course—the beanbags and squishables in the main lounge were gone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance ... from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and ... if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  the view from my window and netflix's view of my window through another window

  

  It snowed on Saturday. Here's what I woke up to on Sunday. [caption id="attachment_50082" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] needs more l o o m i n g  s h a d o w and weather-dirtied window[/caption] And here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is ... yourself post-PNR, and the end feels really far away. Junior fall is ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  aesthetic workspace with color-coded notes, DIY pencil holders, and marbled ... Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019