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Blog / Miscellaneous
my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old
MIT. i had so much enthusiasm and so much music to discover :,) i think ... when we were all kicked out of MIT and were frantically packing all of ... last few nights that we were at MIT, there were a bunch of random -
Blog / About Decisions
wait for it for those awaiting decisions
In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat -
Blog / Challenges
what’s the word for
forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your mouth busy, not because you’re hungry but because you want to keep moving the trance that comes after… -
Blog / Admissions
quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality
deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT -
Blog / Personal Travel
i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours
in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... , you miss out on everything.” At MIT, we have a similar saying, which ... . The cheapest hot item is a Cup of Noodles, which is free at MIT if you -
Blog / Academics & Research
happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes
English, and you can read it on the web here. Or, if you come to MIT, you can -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
We’re big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu’s post about his life in the cloud; back… -
Blog / How to Food
I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes
frantically refreshing the myhousing.mit.edu page to find out where we had been ... ..."]extra grocery store trip,[/annotation]no mean feat in MIT's food-deserty location -
Blog / Miscellaneous
my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software
similar to last year, i also made a playlist called "MIT sophomore year ... keep making a playlist for every year that I’m at MIT. thanks, me from ... we were all back together at MIT again. We Ran out of CD Space by -
Blog / MIT Life
5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief
TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux The last few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my… -
Blog / Admissions
College Admissions and the Public Interest
In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions -
Blog / Blog Projects
A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid
-Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I ... significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I -
Blog / Admissions
How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking
The Bebras Computing Challenge (American homepage, international homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more than… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer
This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done, seen, or experienced before.… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings
We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but… -
Blog / MIT Life
Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet
During the summer, you get to do fun things you can’t pull off during the semester, like staying up all night because spontaneous. After a long Saturday, my friends… -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.
return, is that you please let us know. Log in to your MyMIT account, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT
opportunities MIT churns out every year to send my friends everywhere from DC -
Blog / Study Abroad
Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another
hand at a few things I wish I'd started at MIT. Cambridge University