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  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  You don’t need me to tell you that the college application process is ... (“You’ve landed on the ‘Guidance Counselors’ Office.’ Collect your letters ... strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  The Forbes blogs broke an interesting story early last week that I ... blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US ... lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple ... NAND flash device. The controller sits between the filesystem and the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to

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

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... are available by the 10th of each month and balances are due by the first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just can't wait until after the license plate game. You know who Bruce ... , "The Man With The Screaming Brain," and what better place to premiere it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... extremely excited when I heard about the upcoming pop-up from Gilford T '26, one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  after long deliberations and email exchanges with the transfer credit examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... . firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old person here. In fact, I am 35 years old, almost two times the age when I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had the same format: the autonomous stage and the driving stage. The driving stage is what it sounds like: you drive the robot around the arena

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at MIT and Harvard. I say this both because it beautifully expands the ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... plain sad. Anyway, three full weeks of the Spring Semester have sped away

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  , I went against my instincts and proceeded toward the signs. I would later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... trains and missing signs. I was at the Alewife T-Station, which comprised a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  and Sense-abilities (the neuroscience behind the five senses) HSSP ... ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out ... 10 and Killian Court. No, really. Our audience included the Stata Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... was still called TheFacebook - this was a better time, a time when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... half, Ms. Smith taught us the Top Ten Tips for Painless Networking, which ... yourself that might help jumpstart the conversation. Make sure the tagline is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of ... -year classes. :-) Here are the contenders: 6-001 room 6-001, Building 6 ... interesting basement tidbits. :-) Here, we enter Building 18 and observe the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005