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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that ... and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome ... , which are actually similar. Favorite cartoon character: the monster in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  not use the scores in admissions decisions until it is satisfied with ... very moment, I'm in MIT Room 10-250 with 500 or so other people listening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  students via the DHL website (our shipping company), in essence publishing ... bumping threads on the third-party sites in an effort to minimize the damage

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be ... , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly wrote, "I just wish the bloggers themselves posted more." Well, there have ... 've demonstrated in the comments. And we'll defer 5 out of 6 of you, and sadly, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... 't have any required classes, but a strong academic foundation in high
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... more spice to it. So, back in sophomore year, I thought it would be cool

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... poses a professional threat. I’m privileged in that I never expected to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  cuts in, and it shows the result you'll get when you unfold it. It ... this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It ... sit in the front page of SnowDays, you can watch the most recent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... equation describing a particle in a gravitational field"]a Schrödinger

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... interactive maps. Then, I took each entry in the list, grouped them by common

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  —a shiny prize wheel in front of a heap of good prizes. A Harvard athlete ... in our hands. The athlete smiled at us and held up a QR code. He made ... fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because ... I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I ... , measuring things, cutting two by fours, putting in screws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for more than like two (2) minutes at once in literal months, so my body wasn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus ... weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020