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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around ... 't tell me until a week later. Three years later, Varsha is off to Harvard

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  medicine, but in all science.” For Sacks, a doctor, the point is that ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from ... across the globe. On the far left is Plato’s Gorgias. There is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as ... lecture wondering, what even is a microcontroller (or microcomputer)? When ... unmatched). I still don't know what a microcontroller is, but no one really

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  once every two or three hours, but, in what is perhaps not a great omen ... happens anyways, and, in any case, is too deep of a rabbithole to be ... trip totals seventy-eight hours of travel, with a four-hour layover in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a ... Archive, which is a nonprofit. [...] The Internet Archive also sponsors a ... I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in ... hosts the fall career fair. This is a pretty big deal at MIT, where all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this time, I've got plenty of volunteers from a wide array of backgrounds, so I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  ), or, in our case, a living group (Conner 2!). Now, I've played three ... is that you have a lot of Eastern European women who go "wa-PEE!" when ... brought in a bunch of ringers for other floors and let them destroy the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  place. A solution I've found, though, is documenting the process, though ... . Something I've been telling myself a lot is to just try my very hardest in ... ." Instead, I hear "Yeah this is the best you're gonna get. It's not even a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  Shakesperian love sonnets, in full 14-line iambic pentameter. So: as a few of the ... structure*** The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. In other words, the ... the tricky part. Each line is written in what's known as "iambic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  physics in a manner that was "exciting," or so to speak. To me, physics is ... slowly in your mouth is much stronger than normal chili peppers). I have a ... pathway works in the lab, for example, is a nice, refreshing feeling. It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  ) In 'Time is a Mother,' poet Ocean Vuong reflects on life, and time ... 's quote "there is a vitality, a life force." I love this quote a lot and ... Lending Art Program. I participated in SLAP this year and got a piece of art

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a ... GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  teacher to note the situation in his response/letter. Overall, this is not a ... the scores have not yet been received. Is this due to a delay in ... ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the round feel distinct. Crisp, in a way. “My favorite supervillain is ... worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... gathered in a biology teacher’s classroom, attempting to excel in something

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  that prove the internet is not dead and also not a bad place maybe [but it probably still is]: https://youtu.be/0UtWNmlkHw0?si=-iajO981TGV4a35 ... says that the Lord is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path, not a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... every function we write in the class returns a visual output whether that ... happens in the this Michael Jackson Music Video)! Coding is now fun

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up ... are affiliated with a sorority. 08:22 ≈25% of undergraduates live in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... of the Seven Gables (the author is also famous for the Scarlet Letter ... -related streets and then ate seafood in a restaurant by the ocean. The food was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016