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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  . "Sometimes the custodian will hear it crying or scratching to get someone ... MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  with. There's only so many desks to work, so those tend to get filled up ... '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  , involves getting a robot to understand human speech) Machine learning (involves getting a robot to understand a pattern) Soft robotics (designing robots ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... discovered they were all pretty awesome, and I’m glad I get to live with them ... community is to really participate, to get to know other people, to find that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  , and a part of that is engaging with students. Go talk to them!!! Getting to hang out with cool people is also part of the fun! Go get advice and ... experiment, there are only 3 hours of data collection (as opposed to the normal

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  hanging out the bus, yelling at us to get our attention. It’s another man ... only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  would get to it eventually a few times, and then I forgot a few times ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  engineers. All my previous companies were smaller, and I wanted to get the ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  compounding nature of falling apart. I try my best to get ahead at the beginning ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... to anything like it again. Yet, somehow, sophomore spring got even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  pointed at a post on Piazza (a website where students and professors get to ... from conception to development to iterative improvement to final product ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out ... acceptees to MIT this year. Congratulations! In order to ready the potential ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  the lyrics with their own. My favorite would have to be the song dedicated to Facebook, which is probably the reasons I get less sleep than I

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  Answers to some more of the common questions ... , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The bottom line is, get your financial aid materials in as soon as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract ... were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  like looming deadlines and assignments to really get the procrastination ... it filled me with renewed vigor to get better.   [caption id ... design is that you get to actually see your work in use, especially when it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The Blessing ... relevant to my life, but mostly I decided that the self-help shelves didn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  will be sure to get the interview report. Submitting & Tracking ... or anything that is likely to need changes or edits. No need to wait ... us know ASAP. Be sure to validate your Part 2 (on page 10) well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011