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• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out ... read this. Ben has put it more beautifully than any of us ever will.) ps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  it takes more than one gender to build a just and fair world.  How ... applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  ?[/annotation] , and chantey/shanty enthusiasts didn’t really nail down how it should be ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  years, but this would be the first time through Course 6.   How it ... depending on how you look at it. More free time during the semester, vs. more ... more officially, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich!) It all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  last four whole days) has been consumed by psets, it seems only appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few cross country team dinners; it’s where MIT students say they’d like to ... dinner a few months ago, Bertucci’s was the obvious choice of venue. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  , and then they brought out dessert. And it was gorgeous. A beautiful ... flower attached... it must have been made of something sweet, chocolate or sugar or something, but I never found out. It was too pretty and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  teacher's name was Lynn, so I guess I've just been indoctrinated to call it ... , although I guess I've called it that sometimes too, for absolute clarity. It was just really weird getting here and hearing it called "lonn" though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  is about and why I like it / how to write good poems. I also want to ... remember being a freshman this time last year! It was all excitement and ... fingers onto waxy floor tiles. It feels almost like a dream now. Nothing was

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  dressed, and collecting my books, an hour has passed. How did that take an ... . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted ... are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  motivation, and I thought I should go ahead and post it, even if I should ... it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of ... , but who really cares? just call it 2.009 like a normal person) and all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  't 5E have seven not that long ago? -- but it's probably a good idea to ... cats as they feel like it. They're a lot of fun to have around, and when they do something you don't like, it's hard to get angry at them because

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  presence. I love it. The club has also taught me a new relationship with fear ... circus performers and fire dancers even come out to teach — it's so cool ... . It sprinkled some fun sidequests throughout my semesters. For my 2

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  friend group did secret santa. It was very much fun indeed! [carousel ... I got all distracted and missed it :[] My keyboard STILL doesn't work ... EVERY WEEK on Thursday we are like "guys... we did it again" and stay up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  also like to share about the Assassin's Guild Patrol Saturdays, but it ... . How supportive are MIT faculty in encouraging students' ideas? What ... /etc. It also turned out that the transfer student had worked in the lab on a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  extent, but it is possible that you (like many others) worry that you can ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn ... , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers ... of baseball trivia. It was like magic tricks. I could tell you ... video, analyzes the hell out of it" - Media Lab researcher Deb Roy tracks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  it conflict with the season premiere of Ben's favorite show, The O ... preventable." He added that no matter how ambitious the coastal engineering, no matter how innovative and well maintained, the systems of levees, seawalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... -competitive and cutthroat. A. Actually, MIT is a very collaborative place, and it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  shortly after, and it was so cool to hear how his MIT education still helps ... various artistic/technical aspects of animation, and how we have been able ... Media Lab! When we wanted to learn how to 3D model, Allan was able to go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020