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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  ? A few things: 1. I get to learn about so many things everyday ... of your life - these are all meant to be temporally-finite experiences ... these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... voted "Most Likely to Cure Cancer?" (There's your shoutout, Tis ... unlikely that any of you will get to see it unless someone starts a Pay

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... immediately with a side of fresh strawberries (assuming you're early enough to ... , so I usually only do this if I get a to-go box (e.g., during late

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  to party even harder after the test was over. Getting that perfect ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them ... Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  than willing to link to it if you send me an email with a link to your ... Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this ... I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... lecture, ask. The moment you start to get behind, ask for help. The instant ... to accomodate your curiousity. Of course you might be able to do it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  knuckle pool because nobody really wanted to walk 5 feet to get the sticks ... hugging an overstuffed sandwich that your doctor (the one who told you to get nine hours of sleep per night) would advise you not to eat. Weekends

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... 't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... trace if you're supposed to. [caption id="attachment_90869" align ... actually makes it cheaper to fabricate[/caption] Ideally, your traces should

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  10500000 things to say but your mouth and brain are like, "Sorry homie, we ... like to hear me talk about getting to MIT and my last days at home then ... response to the first day of class could only be tied to that feeling you get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... . Life is hard; get used to it. And then I came to MIT, and I realized ... MIT, freshmen get to do things! Freshmen get to be the president of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... , oh, you're graduating this semester. You need to write an essay." Turns ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  just highlight your essay and hit Ctrl+Shift+C to get a word count ... takes some effort at the start to sign up and get your pages set up, but ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thing you can think about in your mind without worrying about getting ... 1980. There, engineers had been trying to get computers to exchange

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs ... importantly, it's a chance for these youngsters to forget about difficult times at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  weekday for crew practice, and I've been getting to bed by 9:30 or 10 every ... → getting confused → going to office hours to ask for help → finishing the ... My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  ="Or many others"]Course 6[/annotation], 6.0001 will be your foray to ... depth of [annotation note="If you're interested, head over to Meet the ... The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  do not want to get fat. There's a big lounge called the TFL ... pots, ahem). MacGregor is also in talks to get a dining hall put in ... anything. But if brushing your teeth next to a guy creeps you out, there are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  below, nor should you feel compelled to defend your choice as much as to ... , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... on campus, so I really appreciate you finding time to fit me into your ... Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009