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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  between the Great Hunger of intellectual curiosity and a kind of depraved ... -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... ’s. And like, that’s okay, or at least as okay as any of the other countless ... , and my car back home guzzles gas to the tune of 20 miles per gallon, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end-of ... movies and also rarely go. Part of that is the curse of streaming has

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  heritage and apparently having a face that looks kind of funny, to the extent ... . The first time I visited the MIT Admissions website to look at the ... slow and incremental and often nonexistent. It requires the height of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  algorithms, and our very first autonomous driving system. The Cool Stuff ... , and decoupled suspension. Our car’s [annotation note="the amount of time ... ? I think the boom of the software and artificial intelligence era has

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note ... Philosophy EDIT: I just realized that the "Majors and Minors" page on the ... ? First of all, it means that I chose 2A, the "flexible" version of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... the contestants on the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek 2 (guess

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... "]machine learning[/annotation] algorithms, and the minutiae of [annotation note="6 ... Boston"] IAP [/annotation] shivering and staring at the frozen surface of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  experiences alone? All of these ways to "do" CPW (and the ∞ other ones I didn ... (as is the rest of undergrad) to learn more about yourself, and you ... people to death and they make the rest of your day a blessing). Talk to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  , and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard ... main topic of the post: some observations about Slay the Spire, and how ... noticed it and complimented me for it. But I think most of the satisfaction

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  ? Students often get excited and fill out the form before their grades are released, which defeats at least half the purpose of the whole form. And ... concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You can ignore the text boxes and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  a 3-D printing company and gave a lecture on the uses and failures of ... most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... we divided into our cliques and groups. Many of us loved to hate the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  ballgown THE DAY OF THE BALL and getting away with it. Straight ahead, by ... the Whirlpool Galaxy, and a third one is of the sky when viewed in the ... characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that the class demanded a certain level of mathematical maturity and went ... . a bunch of my friends were in the class and collaborating with them

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and ... tickets. So the four of us stayed to the side, all very nervous and anxious

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of ... 's actually just one of the many, many completely amazing professors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  , chocolate spaghetti and BBQ olive oil. I also tried a ghost pepper, one of the ... -Cola's around the world. Lo and behold, my little country of Costa Rica was one of ... "Poisonouse Snakes & Insects in the Area" and nope'd out of there

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  to get a generous seven of the 25 questions wrong and still pass. With ... least five. And of course, I got all of those questions wrong. In the end ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025