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• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  section. For rookie rocket builders, that was a whole heaping heck of a lot ... curiosity and an urgency to try again and again. There was a craving for the ... because for a while, it was so much easier to just sit at my desk or lie

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  /Chinese courses, so revisiting it for such a different purpose was pretty strange ... habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive ... good job with a high salary bad for you?? Well, as it turns out, there

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general ... essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But ... them independently, that's fine too. (For example, if you love baking

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  , compared with 22% who choose to have an interview. The reason for this is a ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... my head on a pillow for more than about 27 seconds before I completely ... , and I usually only dream when I've been sleeping for a really long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... over? A newspaper of course, silly. So my name appeared in this week

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... reasoning rigorously, but requires a setup too laborious for the blogs, let ... A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  During my freshman orientation many, many months ago, I came across a ... morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the ... videos from our fall Rambax concert, and a special Christmas

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can't really identify. so here is a guide, for those lost. this emotion is

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A ... back in Boston for a week now. Roosters replaced with phone clocks. Kites ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... Science graduate and was looking for a Mechanical Engineering student to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  the time. For those of you with an Asian Students Club or a Film ... film for discussion, from both a cultural/sociological perspective and ... , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  projects that we hadn’t seen in years, and laughed a lot! So for that, thank ... precedes certainty – at least for now.   You brought us work ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year ... , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you ... and for it to appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  learn a lot, and we're going to think that when you come to MIT you'll learn even more. So it's always a good thing to push yourself academically in high school, for your sake and ours. That said, MIT does not
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  , can you tell us any methods in planning classes for a double major ... (English Literature, Government, US History); for each 5 on a humanities AP ... Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!

  

  brought back the infamous b1ner cribs, and Layla and I (although in a triple at the time) got a feature! So, it's only fitting that for our third ... genuinely forgot I was in a college dorm for a second! [image_row images

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 16, 2026