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  Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have ... we have enough information to make an informed decision.   All

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... up to the mountains with a Taiwanese health outreach group (think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school ... what most people make it out to be. Almost everyone here has an interest

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... -winded sentences, making sure to use one of the 32 new grammar strategies we had ... sandwich and a Honeycrisp apple that my roommate gave to me after apple

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... are still more than a Chipotle burrito ($7.50 after tax at Kendall). To ... a lot weight to this argument: MIT students are perpetually busy and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  really a place where people go to make friends, though, which is a shame ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  same reason there’s a point to making friends even if you eventually have ... mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore ... means that if you tell a friend you can’t talk to them right now, or can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... shooting: But of course, being a hipster in denial, if there's two ways to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  , every bad test grade, every rook lost to a nasty fork makes me feel as if ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their ... tears and my nose a horrid, stark red. "You seem to put on a brave face a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  day by day.  We want to make sure that we are fine owning what we can ... to make lunch at roughly noon. I know it’s supposed to be a break, sort ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... make jokes about being an international student confused by american ... Busy With Things But Not Really. which is kind of a bad place to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  to make it shorter next year. Upstairs I try to take a nap, but am distracted by my prefrosh. We play a game of Funny Game: Penguin Jrap Activate ... going to run a Python spelling bee, one of EC's traditional bad ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would determine whether it belongs to a language or not. Formally, we will create ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike announced a Nike+iPod Sport Kit partnership. This part doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  yet. They do not need to be in by midnight. We are processing thousands ... validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to ... the scores that make you look best, and we do abide by Score Choice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of ... also exploratory: you will begin to make sense of ideas through the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018