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• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... applying to my programs. (I got a better score on the GRE than I did on the ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  ='i also was taking this in part to fulfill a requirement for a course 6 (cs ... ", and how it's natural for us to tell people things in a way that makes it ... 'm naturally inclined to write things in a way that makes it all seem orderly. I

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  greatly. It is a special MIT gem. Talk to your family. Stay in touch with ... cost of food to 1/25th of the meal plan charge (if you live in a cook ... closest-to-perfect space here at MIT. P.S.: I may remember more in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be ... Massachusetts will vote to repeal or keep the law. As a transgender woman, my

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  this exercise: find a friend. Pick one to be the doctor, and the other ... hopefully pick up enough phrases to find a job outside of the factory ... interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Damon’s MIT-janitor character says to a rival from Harvard in Good Will ... the world in the 21st century.”']sense of mission to use our interests ... for Cambridge youth that exist to this day. In a report reflecting on

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... feel like a different person. not to be a nerd but in my research there ... ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like ... that I've grown to dislike my time in California. Only a little bit ago I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  feeling that I should try to get a more solid foundation in calculus at MIT ... switching in. Danny now has to struggle through 18.01A without me, but I ... melts thoroughly. i used to use a metal spoon for this, but i keep

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  movie in my humble opinion"]Train to Busan,[/annotation] a Korean zombie ... ?” As the aspiring course 18 in spicynoodles tries to find some pattern in ... sneaked my doggo in here.” He pulls out and opens a dog carrier to reveal a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow ... only mean one thing--IT'S TIME TO BUILD A SNOW FORT! Part 1: The ... stickiness to form blocks, and also you’ll suffer more. With a cold front

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  away from “bad guys” and throw a stone in a nearby well to ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... falling from the sky, I won't deny that I always took a certain pleasure in running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  to the skills I have learned as a midshipman in the ROTC program. The ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  . I moved the couch to be in a more 'commanding position.' I think it ... anything at all. So, in defiance, here's a series of thoughts, none of which ... I never finished writing this past semester: a sequel to my tarot blog

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026