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• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  Simmons Hall is supersaturated with tiny windows, or the thrill of hearing ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... unwelcome rush of last-minute standardized testing. Which is why I'm in Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  wanted to be an engineer and just accidentally ended up on this path which led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I ... to Charm School. How to Dress Yourself 101. Or something. This is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from ... science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... the most informed decision we can. As a matter of philosophy we try to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  on November 2, 2006. This is the easiest way to get a UROP, most people will be more willing to hire you and there is not a lot of hassle with ... analysis And the list goes on and on. But of course, doing a UROP is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  to December 31st of this year. The other exhibit that List is ... system of water which self regulates; it changes from droplets to ... has to do with the ways in which forces of nature are systems. The

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  is a great chance to dive into some neat projects. I've been on the ... annoyingly difficult last question on the pset. When a hallmate or neighbor is performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... befell us, and on top of all of that, it seemed like our classes decided to ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  with a sheen of awe and intimidation, which I found to be unproductive ... ="My spread is an example of how tangentially it relates to the theme lol. I ... of these, you probably know how satisfying it is to take the golden

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , helping share part of the effort. The more hands on deck, the better ... very own school. As small as people like to say MIT is, there’s a lot of ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  is once you actually meet them … or talk to them outside of the ... cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  loud (or to hundreds of people on the internet) actually does make you ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  MIT, and people’s only exposure to any sort of South American food is ... Syndrome is the inability to correctly gauge the amount of things you can ... blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  to running a successful company. That is, there is a lot of solid R ... content on your cell phone that guides you around where you go to school or ... hacks?) What is your preferred way to the get the tour: on your smartphone

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  ! I’ll leave it up to you as to which answer is the better one, but I ... This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... know if a better time works.") to no avail. Eventually, I left, and one

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... /principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor/principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades