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  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  digital & on a lit-up screen anyways), but it does serve its purpose ... -on caddy that does the job. It feels a bit papery and low quality, and it ... delivery please come and pick it up! Also if you're expecting a package and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  MIT a challenge, no matter how well-prepared. And MIT does provide ... we have today. So there is a long history of MIT tailoring its ... ='In general, we think it is important that the MIT education does not simply and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more ... the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for ... but we hadn't announced yet precisely what day it would be. I did

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  ’t have to mean that you have two selves. But it does mean that your one ... complain enough about how much[annotation note="The short version is, I ... sitting there not talking, because it makes the house feel alive. On my own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your application matches your financial aid records.…
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  recognized it immediately—despite having long forgotten the author and title ... a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the ... have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  going on. As has been said before, MIT definitely does know how to party ... social life and (dare I say it on the MITblogs) party scene. If you're done ... Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  honestly still don't know how entanglement works. It feels like it just... happens sometimes. But I think most people don't understand how it works ... reliably over long distances as far back as ancient Egypt. So how do they do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  matter how many times you tell yourself that it will all be okay, and no matter how many times you believe it when you tell yourself it will all be ... a sad week for me. It was a short week, but the longest week I've had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  standing next to somebody's mom does not deserve Hubble-esque dimensions ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our ... took the idea to its illogical extreme and proposed an Ice Cube Eating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... long. You can talk about anything for hours, or you can say nothing and it isn’t awkward. Those people you can genuinely say are friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  entry as long as I necessary because it may be the only chance I get to ... . It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... problem is that i don’t know how many of those years i have left, and it ... and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  secretly revel in how hot you are before it's too late. In the long run ... matters. It's how you embrace life. It's how you treat other people. It ... ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  'm ashamed to say it does. I feel like the possibility of becoming great is out ... live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it ... , table, etc. But because it’s water-based, everything is easy to wash off

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  does my camera have a fireworks setting? ...Cue fireworks photos ... it here first.

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in its full, boxlike glory. Translations: -All classes are listed by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... started (and stopped) using Trello recently - i started because it was a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  ???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to ... long story short is that after I wrote that blog post, I didn’t actually

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007