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• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... :   chilling at a floor gathering eating Chilean snacks (courtesy of ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for ... , etc.). One even offered to take photos of us on top of Angels' Landing c ... I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... many fun ideas. You were pushing at the boundaries of what comics can do ... Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  built one pixel at a time on a 128x128 field of blocks at a remote ... project and a live map of the server, and email the moderator team at sipb ... outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... of the interview] Interviewer: [points at his French Fries] "Do you ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will ... 've likely seen on Matt's blog, we went to the waitlist today and offered ... of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  aforementioned cancellation of my Friday night plans, I set out at 11 PM for a 10 ... 't listed on any of the maps, so I looked at some postcards in a gift shop and ... "of." Now, the rent-a-cops there didn't seem too imposing, and at that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  planned to take any of the many game related class offered through CMS. I ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  career fair was kind of like being the twelve-year-old at your big brother's birthday party. You're kind of cute and everyone smiles at you and gives you ... be too. So, to wrap it up, a summary of the career fair. At the cost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  the Head of Product Design at Continuum. *** This is the class I ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... ; Suddenly, I started having headaches that wouldn't go away. At first I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  spread the word of Jesus recently. Everyone around us at the restaurant was ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... movie or favorite scenes/lines. I'll post the results of the "Weekend at ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the ... frustrated, failing everything, and can't see the light at the end of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  officers at MIT are expected to work 6 days out of the week, to meet our ... where it happens Since I spend most of my day reading files at my desk, I ... context requires the reader to collocate a lot of information at once

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  must have written at least a hundred different stories, most of them ... staring at the face of the killer, you’ve forgotten the wash of emotions ... compliments she had to offer, despite the overall morbidity of the characters

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014