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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  accessible by bus or subway. I thought I might want to bring my car from home ... get to campus by bus, or about half that if I decide to drive. The bus ... to making noise at hours that aren't mutually convenient. But it's all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one ... forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  some quick "I'm sorry"s and explanations. I've finally been able to heal ... , come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends ... able to constantly stride around the city like I knew it so well. Hopping

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... side-by-side number comparisons of schools. It is time to focus on the ... 'm talking the Pell Disbursement Record from COD here) doesn't get to MIT by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  . There are many things I can do, things I can make, and places I can go to ... , or between now and whatever you're waiting for. Things to Make While ... MIT student, you can come volunteer every other Thursday to make challah

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... and I wanted to make friends. It turned out to be more than I bargained ... little ways by myself to trip over logs. Here, I've encountered the same

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... programming, and other offices got together to discuss what we could do to make ... have been working for several years to make Illuminations possible, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  ’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You ... going to be my major), and one of my jobs was to make what were ... didn’t think it was possible for me to understand. By the end of the UROP

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder. Sounds simple on paper but in real life it is enough to actually make you ... really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... , 6/2/2018: CAN I HAS THE SCOOTER[/visually_hidden]   To make a ... , the bearings in the steering column were a bit wonky, making it hard to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who ... (^how to make studying for finals in December cozy) I have had ADHD since ... . Sometimes, music is good to start my work, because it makes me feel less

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by [annotation note="a cooking ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  , get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next ... As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of ... at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are encouraged to submit their scores with the understanding that they [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  .[/annotation]Then, I moved to Boston, making me pretty unavailable to help the younger ... will make a post compiling them all some day"]there was so much more to ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... MIT, but I'd like to attend CW if possible. I heard we get to make ... make me no less of a manly man, I happened to have two stuffed animals on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  the details on the Back to the Future hack and the MIT Zoo hack by ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO ... . I was dripping with nostalgia by the end of it--Harry Potter was very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was ... happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain ... social connection, aka reaching out to people and trying to foster new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make ... that I had to finish it. It's like when your mom calls you by your first ... probably didn't intend all this free wifi to be used by someone who's already

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007