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• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  selections from the upcoming movie "Jumper", as well as a discussion panel ... Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Identity" trilogy), and MIT physics ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  group, your host is the house, rather than a particular person). You ... decision about where to go to school. But will the slice be what you're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  find that I'm blindly optimistic about classes on the first week (see: 18 ... the class and ultimately lose interest and motivation to do well in it, therefore doing the bare minimum and using PNR to my full ability. Now, I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on" on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer recorded the temperature. Sure, that sounds pretty easy for a lab experiment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know ... of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe ... classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... take only the classes that make me happiest, which will include some Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required ... these letters from the people who know you best and can advocate most compellingly on your behalf, whether or not they have taught you the most
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... good way). It’s one of the reasons why I’ve written so many blog posts

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet, they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  could be robots or math or cheesecake or Netflix. Mmmm, cheesecake). The ... fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... ’m a senior, and he’s a junior. We still live in the same floor of Random

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... st.  three years ago, my sister wrote the November Rule blog. a year later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... years later, I started learning dances from the choreography videos of ... creating my own dance videos was so fun for me. Over the years, I’ve learned

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... 's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  thing I love more than the song [annotation note="Mariah Forever! (Jeremy ... Slack screen, and typed “Petey, I got you.” Considering the title of the blog, you’ve probably figured out that Jeremy finally told me the release

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete as a group (like walking down the infinite with a rainbow parachute

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen ... July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... who may feel the same way! At MIT, each semester begins with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016