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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... sounds fun. Most people only get to take one.   I read the blogs my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  planning in this way (to my knowledge). I applied as a civil engineering ... graduate) because I didn't want to be in an environment of exclusively ... has to take 3-4 subjects in a single humanities subject to graduate

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what ... as I was settling into my seat, the person in the seat next to me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  in Miami when she released her first novel, Getting Mother's Body. It's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in ... Guild. I was in fact planning on going to both, though, because I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 's probably not in your best interest to use the comments to wonder about this ... III, which means, among other things, that you're not going to get an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the senior thesis Mike Short '05 had to write to get his BS in Course 22 ... the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office. It took me 6 months to really get my bearings down there. Prior to that, it was like playing a video game - lots of exploring and getting lost

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep ... , 24.900 will allow me to get some provisional answers as to why, even as ... parents speak fluently, I am able to get the gist of their conversation

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative ... months in whatever way life directs them to. Some students rejuvenate ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... the class, I had barely stepped foot in a proper gym. To me, the ... was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat ... -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... you're likely to have a decent amount of separation in the bands you see

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  . My advice to you is to get involved in the UROP program here. I forget ... before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008