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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  ! How is MIT similar to and different from Hogwarts? Let's see. Like ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is ... lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I'd like you to meet someone new, though -- This is my gigantic freshman

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner Sarah, '12 decided that, in addition to our delicious rice and chicken

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  learn how to solve problems! And then there are the somewhat more difficult aspects to articulate. For instance, paper airplanes….. This is how ... this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... 've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case)? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  topics and how we would analyze comics, and started to say something that ... using the most dangerous writing app, where you are forced to write in ... when I don't post. Whoops. [I'm also too tired to do all of the footnotes

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  how to use a machine, and they also put in the underappreciated work of ... how important this space has been to me in my three years on-campus so ... as many of my other maker friends. It’s also how I got to know my first

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  's a beautiful attention to detail, with how Madeline's hair changes ... ? Well, how else are you supposed to feel when this dark doppelganger of ... I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  realized how hard it would be to convey my story in 12 minutes. ...My speech ... wasn't sure how everything was going to happen. [Kim] was perfect: she ... from a bunch of people asking everything from how to engage young girls

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  process, how was I going to put up with several dozen more? It tends to be ... virtually? How do we do recruitment now? And I've had to deal with these ... One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  seems to be about designing algorithms and constraints that determine how ... actually sure how many times I'll show up to lecture 💀 7 ... valuable to learn from how molecules have evolved and changed. It's also a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... listen to an NPR piece here if you’d like to know more about how and why it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  foundation. Ask any young Cantabridgian to expound on collagen, but s/he may not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008