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• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  yourself. 6. It’s ok to Google us. But not too much. ECs know we are part ... the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  , Googled the answer, and gone back to our work. But instead, the conversation ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore ... , I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out ... miserably failed at attending all the events I had hoped to be at. While this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  schools who email with the question: "What now? I don't know what to do." My ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... hearts go out to those students and their families who have been affected

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  over to the Google Cambridge office for another open house, snuck into ... To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  printout from Google Maps en route to the Eastern Promenade, as it is called ... outdoorsy areas to visit around New England. Here is the first one I completed ... coming weeks :) When I got these puzzles, I said to myself that I didn

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  point B without having to rely on Google Maps. A bigger motivator that ... This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... denotes we were too poor to have any more than one bag of chips. Most

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and ... offer any advice it's just to emote. Let your psychological immune system ... 'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  can Google 'Spectre CPU attack' if you want to know more."]a consequence ... , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  ."]insane Google calendar starting to fill.[/annotation] The scene transitions to ... of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022