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Blog / Academics & Research
The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too
idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... their format is shocking after a year at MIT. It’s odd not to pset here ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Deferred Early
students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat ... As you know, we had a very competitive Early Action applicant pool ... deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Early Action: Deferred A forum.
shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat. ... We had a record number of Early Action applicants this year, and ... we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Forum for those Not Admitted
With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many -
Blog / Classes
What I’m taking this semester! senior fall
" post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... 've really wanted to take a robotics class. Robotics team was one of my -
Blog / Admissions
An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.
As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.
Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts -
Blog / How to Human
2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable
that a bit in this first semester of college, but I really want 2020 to ... gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and ... home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how -
Blog / How to Money
ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money
March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand, where I held a full-time job. Most salaried jobs will withhold ... . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to -
Blog / MIT Life
extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city
time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition ... . It was such a perfect start to my day; in this kind of weather, MIT ... I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and -
FAQ / Life and culture
What’s MIT’s mission statement?
intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in ... The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in ... nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to -
Blog / MIT Life
Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!
’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... eating in my dorm, this usually is enough food to last a week. I typically ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo
without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... actually read back in middle school, and it motivated me to buy a collection -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"
articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a ... a presence about her that people are drawn to," he said. The Hometown -
Blog / MIT Life
Gendered language y/n?
encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... initial difficulty in getting used to it. I’ve also heard a few people -
Blog / Admissions
Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something
: Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a ... the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in ... , Rachel is fighting fires, both in the trenches (as a volunteer firefighter -
Blog / MIT Life
Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…
[Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a ... on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is -
Blog / Events
What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up
originated at MIT (which was more than a little ironic to hear him say aloud in ... event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ... called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤
website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band ... year since MITWE rehearsed in person as a group, so we were still
