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• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... : get the main thing (you'll know what it is)."]various soup noodle dishes[/annotation]to ... favorite food. We had a larger group of people, so we opted to get a sushi

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  addiction and so continued to lurk from time to time to get my fix. Some of my ... by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the ... seem like I executed this straight-line multi-year master plan to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  individuality and how you choose to represent yourself, and your door is perhaps ... contributed by painting the solid parts. Our final touch was to splatter paint ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... . I’d sworn to stick to math. Cannot imagine why. It took a while to get ... freshman year. I was lost and disillusioned by the end, unable to see my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... [annotation note="hi '28s! welcome to campus <3"]new class year[/annotation], and ... heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic ... must be sent to us from your school to verify your self
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... . We decide to grab some breakfast and her mom instinct kicks in by ... so instead my new friends Danny and Jennifer and I head over to Alpha

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... us your midyear grades and anything new that has happened or will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the scoop - it's not sent out by admissions, rather, it's handled

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  process trying hard to impress a group of skeptical judges with your ... , please remember to be kind to yourself. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Drink water. Support your family and community. Do not compare your beginning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  out a year hoping to be favored by chance. Plausible, however, does not ... your opportunities, you may discover that everything you need to reach your personal and professional goals is available to you, and it makes

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  over the years, he confides, "By the way, I didn't go to MIT."   ... Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  and traditions fade more with each year, with nothing new coming up to ... new and colorful as they once did, to the wide-eyed first-year moving to ... up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  whiteboard is definitely dirty by the end) intended to be used on new ... eraser. Basically, you’re trying to get out as many surface stains as you ... clothes. Instead, rinse them out by hand first to get toothpaste and marker

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... VR. If you guys want to get involved as well, I suggest buying a pair or getting the much cheaper Google Cardboard, which works with any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks ... pursued by a company called TransCanada, that seeks to invest ~5.4 billion ... 't worry, my professor knows I'm getting your help!) Gabriel Blanchet 21W

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... going to wah-wah-wah through complaints like, "What if I get a bad grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009