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  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  in the evening to finish up an assignment for a class I had that day ... hours of meeting some really amazing people in the AI development space, I ... hotel that afternoon when it hit me that I was actually in Houston now and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time ... in situations that are other people's nightmares. I'm particularly

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  an American train and take in the natural splendor you can find all ... ’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I ... shadow I grew up in. It’s a truly lively city with a lot of diversity and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  you'll get over it but you feel like you never will.[1] So if I can ... your field. Now, I hope you don't obsessively dwell on this blog in the ... Tebow after the decisions were released. I knew about Tebow from talking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... don't think I'll ever come close to grabbing more than 33 t-shirts in a ... back home in California. As you will see later, I no longer even include

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster ... structures in my head more than I like resonance structures. But there was a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  night was a luxury. The single class that I took in January, which was ... that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... say that I have a plan to make sure that I will be Perfectly Fine in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... jump every ten or twenty beats, the climax had 27 jumps in a row. i ... , coming in every beat at a tempo of 146 bpm or 2.43 beats per second, so i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  day, in April, I got a thin envelope in the mail from this school. It ... it too, in part because of me, I'm so, so sorry. If you want to talk ... that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these ... the various paraphernelia I was going to smuggle into graduation in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just ... to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don ... good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  and who works in/around the field of interactive fiction. I think it ... Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms ... -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  [] and a little art? If the hints aren't helping, I guess I can give you another hint. Typically on my commute to work, I read the Boston Metro. It ... letting people ride it around their neighborhoods in the coming months; I

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions ... session we went to Sanford's Grub and Pub. I can't even begin to describe it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... ’t write about your time in prison.” I heard this in a video once. There are ... that: (1) your essay is written in a consistent tense (“I sat on a cow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  nourishment, it is reassurance that in this increasingly chaotic world, I can at ... feel like I have developed my own signature style in cooking – dishes ... catering to other people’s tastes for so long that I couldn’t find myself in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... why I committed to MIT was because I was in awe of Borderline ... interests and passions at MIT, and I'm so excited for everyone to see it in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and ... afraid of MIT? Those nerds? There’s no way they can play sports!” And I bet ... it.  I learned that MIT was a jock school by living in it. I saw my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  in Early Action. When should I fill it out? As soon as possible ... an option where you can indicate this. I am homeschooled. Do I still ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014