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• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... ) California kid who was told in 8th grade that I needed to take five million AP classes to get into an in-state school. Believe it or not, AP mania hasn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... cause big traffic delays to the train line in question. When a major ... I saw. 60. Want to know how to say "Yes, We Can" in Japanese? It has

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair ... to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... students in course 18! Life becomes a lot easier when you learn to ask for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  as a freshman in high school. She is me at the core. She is enough to ... of a life to live. And then after a blink or two, in my case, anyway, Supermassive Black Hole by Muse starts to play in my head.    

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... in common? Well, first, they’re all what people traditionally take “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  in toy land. I still don't want to tell you what we're making, but I ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about ... fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... already stabilized and it's hard to work your way in. This is obviously a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... I tried to imagine an office, the light filtering in through the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... that I would have the opportunity to partake in research at MIT was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  one day do an entry devoted to ice cream in Boston/Cambridge, what do ... . Boston has a lot of other exciting events in store to celebrate it's 375th ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  they were ranked to be in 9th place. They were going to Nationals. The ... 't matter, they're just yelling for me to GO!-flashes by in a second. What ... finish is good enough to qualify for Nationals in Iowa, so the team gets

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby ... back to my room, then to the kitchen, where people were waiting in the ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in the bathroom that decided to spray water all over the house. While fun

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to taste, then snorting said solution up your nose. Fortunately, prior to ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in ... break from labeling videos to eat dinner in the dining hall, I caught

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... , affecting my nose and inducing pain in my ears, it was difficult to fall ... 's been so hard to drag myself out of bed. and even when i spend time in bed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it ... transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and ... was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science ... Program in Media Arts and Sciences; the Program in Art, Culture, and