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• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  overstating it. Drew, you should make every effort to get into the optimal place (to the extent that you can figure it out) now, because Omar is correct ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  interesting, they can ask the author to explain the project, and you can have an ... Bylinskii, helped organize. Speakers talked about methods to approximate where ... , and conference attendees can browse through the different displays to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  ’s completely silent there, and the reading room echoes very loudly so you can ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there ... you can walk across the hall and bug your head lecturer!   CSAIL

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  Bloggers) ANYTHING!" On that post (not this one!), you can go down in the comments section and ask us your burning questions! You can also upvote other ... , you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is the Internet

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

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the ... understand that we can't be everywhere!] Even if you are applying elsewhere via ... application components to us in advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only ... pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... Jeannie, where she has to make a robot Jeannie to walk down the aisle with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  , there are all the many, many student groups on campus where you can forge ... I were lost in Addis Ababa. You’ve probably already guessed that I get ... can do anything, but you can’t do everything. If my previous year was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2018. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  state in which you're performing an activity where you are fully immersed ... is only fulfilling when you can occupy your time with other things and ... . Hide your phone so you can further your ability to experience flow

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read ... present the winner of the [annotation note="which is super cool, and you can

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  on three black circles. in particular, the triangle can look even ... perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the opposite effect, an ungestalt effect. where, instead of some larger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  free-spirited. Daisy is now living the life out on a farm where she can ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  to find a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) where I get ... get confused about how I spent the last two hours of my life on cat You ... . Foresight can be 20/20, too! All myopia jokes aside, here's what I'd like to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought ... we try hard enough, or if we get the right support, we can access our ... Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work ... dining Bryan: ooh Bryan: did you get stir fry tonight? Diana: nope, tonight ... : Bryan: hey, so get this, i was walking down mem drive today Bryan: and out

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  psets, or the grades they get. Then there’s the times I’ve asked them for ... I find myself comparing where I’m at to where my friends are at, I sit ... or or… the list goes on. “I’m not as smart as them” can be a refrain

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... those other happy hormones? I can never remember which one does what ... year I get [annotation note="on the ground, in my general vicinity

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  any case can you suggest some summmer programs for seniors (where ... is to come!). And, if you can swing it, consider taking a gap year ... up. Cesar: You can do TOEFL in January if you wish. You do not need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  that you pursue things that interest and challenge you. These can be ... , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any ... cheating, etc.). You haven't changed yourself for the sake of getting into

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006