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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you ... , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it ... wondering!!) I took 6.867, one of MIT’s machine learning classes, last ... out of that situation immediately.” 3. My friends are amazing! And

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  females are more verbally proficient. A man being tested for spatial ability ... a stereotypical manly man who is tough, risk-taking, and does weight ... female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  longingly at the beautiful Widener Library (which houses over 3 mln books on ... ) to learn about momentum, or play physics games to reward good classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  your GPA was 4.0 or 3.92. I saw that there was a thread before asking ... design lighting and sound for high school plays - there are an astounding ... who showed great ingenuity in planning or calling plays. Work ethic: As

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on ... the autoclave now. 1:00 PM. I play on the internet in the lab computer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... my room, lock the door, and play NES on my laptop. But last week I was ... 't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  school process. In the meantime, feel free to email in with any questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  the next go-around. Here's my list (man do I love lists): I learned ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for ... [annotation note="You know who you are <3"]my friends,[/annotation]who tried tons

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to ... early admitted classmates in our online community.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98, started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his ... created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  dorm had free storage to rushed pack ups to running around helping people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  's not like you're going to run out of opportunities to take free

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D ... wild, man. It is![annotation note="I can hear you laughing, everyone over ... be your home. Welcome <3

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  . "Why call the ambulance? Just leave me alone!" the frail old man muttered ... for most of my essays :3 Here's the same essay, deliberately made worse ... scenes are played across hospitals in the nation everyday. After my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  wrong with MIT, and how they think we should fix it. It was 3:15pm last Thursday afternoon, my final weekday shift, and my 3:30pm break slowly ... finally got someone to answer, it was an older man with a bone to pick. “I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  we read inspirational quotes and watch inspirational videos which ... from 3pm to 6pm, and didn't make much progress. So Thursday I pulled an ... with MIT. You must empower yourself to move forward. Work hard, play hard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... Tube video I sent him, don't remember what "little known fact" I sent in, and ... place. 3. Whether you should become an admissions blogger I have two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012