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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  concert. Mythbusters on stage. Now, what you might not know is that the ... see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students ... couple students went out to San Francisco to help the Mythbusters test the

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application ... doesn't have any impact on admission decisions. In fact, a large ... number or acronym. MIT's majors and minors are listed on our site. And the
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time ... Explorations of Drawing (Advanced), even though I wasn't sure how (Advanced) I ... new perspective on what it means to put something down on the page. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  medical school so that i have a post-graduation roadmap/lifeplan explore ... has been so surreal watching the '16s arrive on campus and thinking ... I'll be an admissions blogger, and so on. I promise - like, for real

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... terrifying. For almost five years of my life I had been set on this one path ... (“with a focus on Biology,” I said, since I’m course XB) could do for each

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  at MIT can you walk past Building 32 (yeah, fine, the Stata Center) on ... , basking blondes are no match for pillows in flight. Back on Tetazoo, I ... fanfare on Killian Court attracted some attention. Several tourists and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4 ... 'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... perfectly describe how I felt when I first put foot on campus, but sadly I don

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  the potatoes, honey—Mr. Concord, you wouldn’t believe it. Today on the ... dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had ... three dark brown hairs on the pillow and two on the bed; the other had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  making it interesting"]Steve Banzaert,[/annotation], I was fully on board ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi ... these components be positioned on your actual board? I had to keep in mind

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... has been fine. i lived on the boston side of the river last summer, and ... internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  )Incident, I wrote the following over on the emo, emo LiveJournal: [MIT's] admit rate terrifies me more than just a little - I mean, 12.2%? Come on, you ... key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was right on. The film centered on Shahrukh Khan's character Mohan, who ... with very spotty electricity, one phone, little emphasis on education ... competition that MIT lives out its mission of improving the world through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on ... , semesterly dues every month, the possibility of having to live in the house ... major shift. I'm not living in Random this incoming fall, which is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  Farfalle Con Pollo resting on them. Two economists meet on the street. One ... Institute, UBS and Lehman Brothers. We'll give you the low-down on everything ... how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... Solver: Radia Perlman's determination helped make Web surfing a reality ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to live on Burton 2, known primarily for being right below the Burton Third ... that I’d be living with Kosher keeping people, much less on a floor with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... opportunities to get hands on rather than just brainstorm ideas. Fireflies, the ... ended up being was me bringing my friends food on demand. I remember

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit ... ice lake w/ judas and satan :~) i spent this weekend working on a behemoth of a homework assignment for 6.867 and trying to catch up on my late

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... your file. Thanks! *****   Happy Halloween! Today is ... interviewer. Do not worry, we are not shutting down the application on November

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation ... Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the World Bank and an organization called EMBARQ that focuses on what I am

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012