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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... 't decided yet where I'm going -- I still have five interviews in front of me!

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , I'll leave it out of this entry.) The last piece of information in my ... one box, so you can imagine that I have quite a lot of work to do over ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing ... 's no reason for me not to begin, all i can do is stare at it and want to ... 's been in years. i made so many good friends this year: from 5W, from toons

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I ... - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it ... interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found itself hacked. Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl More photos can be found here ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it ... fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer ... fellow, I decided to open it up and look in side as per deskworker rules. Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  20-20 hindsight of an admissions officer, I suspect that interview ... serves to amplify the strongest parts of your file. I remember several of ... one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  ***EDIT, 12/31/12 1:49PM: Of course, no sooner than I post this, it ... above and beyond what we had originally anticipated). We're aware of the problem and are working as quickly as we can to resolve it. If you can

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  with a healthy helping of pasta, a sadly bimodal fruit salad (in which I ... I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  scary as hell. So what do I want to be when I grow up? Part of me is ... be an EMT. If it gets overwhelming, I can give up helping others ... the future! And you can do so many things with them - that's why I love

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas. Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me ... . Following the badass "Massachusetts Institute of Techno" hack, I got someone

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  service programs, and I can't wait to continue to do all of these cool ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool ... that it's possible to participate in community service at MIT.  One of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several ... program so these robots can traverse different kinds of environments, like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  new opportunities (I'm sure many of you are similar). In the past, I ... ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  , and at some point hallowing out the flesh of dead turkeys before I can ... 't follow expiration dates either. Speaking of which, I'm currenly locked in ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  achievement in particular, you can think of this as the sort of Any% completion ... single possible level. There are 256 of them in total, because the game can ... definitely. I was one of the fans in the crowd that stopped by and I saw a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  top of the A tier. You can read more about my experience in Madrid here ... at MIT where I can genuinely say I’ve had a positive experience in it ... can think of is 6.08. Now read that again. How is it that I have taken

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023