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  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond, you should know that I have read and thought about your comment. Having

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  out Bryan's latest post) Rushil wrote, "I have a question regarding the MIT application. I have made a research project on a space settlement on the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Kai sums up these 2 months perfectly: Storyboarding Isbla: I actually didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... Kendall Station at around 1:15 PM that Friday, two weeks ago. I’m travelling ... it became more like seven. I had prepared for this and brought some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good fun! Day 1: culture shock Greetings from the west parallel! I have yet to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  Alan: Oh boy, [annotation note="CJ: I find this appropriate given you ... stormy night… Alan: It was a dark night. I don’t think it was particularly stormy. I was visiting Shuli in East Campus one night, and, afterwards

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... the last semester the class happened being Spring 2014. I remember when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on Bus 3, so I sat next to him and we yapped incessantly about research and ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] i drew this on my phone[/caption] Skiing! I missed the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  I met up with some alumni at [annotation note="the pub that for some ... sure our performance was as hype as possible. after, I headed to Felipe ... . on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... favorite styles. I decided to narrate a scene from last Saturday night. I ... which? Homeoptotes On a certain date, I carried a crate with a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening ... the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  carried through the crossword by my friends[/caption] I'm hosed this week. But looking at my last, or next-to-last weeks, I was quite hosed too. I ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] every piece of red text is something I am doing later than I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my life, especially from academics, so I've relied on tools that help me ... every fall. They kind of slapped, not gonna lie, but since I had no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  There are two meals I’ve had consistently this quarantine: for breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the ... a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area by foot — something i never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... "]North End.[/annotation] it was fucking incredible!! i got the chocolate bomb

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  totally needed... Hi, I'm your resident weeb. I've watched some [annotation ... chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for ... , I've filtered out the ones that I've found the most helpful. Here's a ... you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015