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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  recommend finding new roommates. You're going to want space and not be able ... might be occupied by every single one of your roommates you want to avoid ... apartment or go shopping by yourself or even go to the gym to clear your head

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... see if I wanted to go to math graduate school. By that point, no math ... to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  hacks get covered by the blogs pretty often, this section is going to be ... . Yes, the website that your middle school English teacher probably rained ... generate an A.I. version to replace him after he gets into an [annotation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... =toast, sandwiches, etc) If you know you’re going to have a really busy week, stock ... potatoes or sweet potatoes for 10minutes and get a solid hot to-go meal out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work. And we, the MIT students, get to show off our lives to a willing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now ... this EA decision. It may not feel like it if you get in, and you're not ... pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean ... ! Outside now, I wandered over to the site of the new Media Lab extension ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  identify Windows fonts, you're set to identify many of the fonts you'll see ... Courier New, the "9 AM to 2 PM" is Palatino Linotype, and everything else is ... do some editing to get them to cooperate. The door's label is not a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  . Don't rely solely on your 2400 SAT/36 ACT scores to get you into MIT ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  socially at your own pace. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I called ... your first semester at MIT. Contrary to what one may believe from the ... word for it, you will extremely appreciate it. It is so easy to get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  financial engineering. "Our overall goal at Sloan is to spur innovation by ... industry to develop and test the new financial techniques and technologies ... advantage of the new minor in mangement, or even to people not affiliated at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be ... decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  to get somebody to guess "stick pickles into your nose and ears?" The ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... person has 60 seconds to get their team to guess as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... getting hit up for cash by the 'tute is not the central theme of this entry ... is a repeated effort to search for new information and new ideas, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  making and trying new things. Instead of being scared to ask for help, I ... DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on ... cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  to smooth surfaces by taking advantage of intermolecular forces, which ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006