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• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  opportunities. It is always interesting to read your stories, to learn more about ... about it. But I can assure those of you who applied to these programs that ... being admitted to one of these programs does not mean that you won't be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  't really decided whether I'm proud of this or not, but it does answer your ... score, no matter how high it is, is not enough to get you into MIT ... something like that). This year, it's Worst Case Scenarios, those little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy ... classes were spent quickly going over how to use each of the machines and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  . Do you know how long it's gonna be before you actually have to deal ... three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who ... on average? How much does a character tend to say? What does this say

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  've seen it by now. Three plays: Maybe that's how life is. There isn't* a ... 's a heavy-handed metaphor for how you don't notice time passing until it ... clicking the same option over and over, it shows how the dwelling turns

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  't quite know how to cope. It's at times like these, that I like to remind ... (what a time) 30) Carved my first pumpkin (how have I gone so long ... between all of this, it's begun to hit me that I am now officially more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  automated emails sometimes about how long its been since we last blog, and ... does it make sense when you say you have ‘nothing to wear’. Sometimes it’s ... all have the same amount of time and get to choose how we spend it. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  rimmed or coupe? Does it have any cutlery marks that can be seen under ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  we got it done. Seeing how my classmates in the GEL program have done ... , and though MIT often does that, it was most certainly a pleasant ... my interview with my MIT EC. And I loved how Mystery Hunt was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with ... first rodeo with running. I was slightly above average at it and generally enjoyed it because most of my friends were in it as well. One of my most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to ... science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  exploited, how do you actively combat that? How does this war of feelings ... Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddartha Mukherjee (nf) This Is How You ... !! should!!! read!!! this book!!! Everyone!! Check it out now!!!!!! iT’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  The MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching both prospective and experienced entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer mentors. VMS uses a team mentoring…
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing,…
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  tears. Pictures nor words cannot describe how glorious it is. It has ... graduate program, however, as the really difficult climb. It takes a long ... . It's a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  bundled with Helvetica, but it does come with Arial. In fact, if you can ... fonts How do you identify a font? It helps if you've seen it before. This ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  ... and then we immediately realized how immensely useful it is. Now, we use ... : I am informed that "literally everyone else" does it the other way. Me, I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  "]forgot[/annotation] how hard this was until I had to go through it again. Writing is hard ... three times in my life. It’s a pop-science book about how scientists ... it strategy-proof, how “good” it is compared to alternatives (on bases

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m ready. Let’s see how it goes. ... start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it’s ... semester. In some ways, MIT is close. In other ways it feels distant, like a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  ?   4. Does a snowman need to have 3 snowball parts for it to be a real ... ? How much can it? ... few weeks ago it looked nice... On Saturday there was significantly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015