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• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  /Neflix/Switch games) area. It's probably a bad idea to attend classes on a monitor that ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider ... MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the ... ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... amongst bloggers that HASSes are underrated. It’s a great change of pace to have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... though that is not what Dom is short for. i like to call him a dirty little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... stress i felt last year, it would be a lot of stress. it’d be bordering on ... people have to say instead: Into the Unknown here comes a thought As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career ... I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has ... your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the ... to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for ... enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film ... final scene, the one with (Boston's own!) Letters to Cleo playing on the ... American Independent Film Festival from 8:30 a.m. to midnight at 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... On October 10th, the MIT class of 2023 had Ring Delivery. Ring Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on ... small saucepan. 2. Add beef stock and water to rice. 3. Place rice on ... the heat to "simmer," and cover the saucepan with a lid. Cook until you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  On Tuesday, the MIT Institute Community and Equity Office hosted a ... ;feature=youtu.be In my last post, I wrote: On a day like today, I find myself thinking particularly of Ben’sposts on Amaud Arbery and Life of a Black Person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a ... ever going to make an 8: 45 a.m. doctor's appointment ever again ... of my friends brought a broomstick to the theater as his "costume" and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  individuals to us meeting people as twins was a lot higher than in the past. We ... assume this translates to their first impression of us as being part of a ... people on a regular basis this past semester, without right away revealing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018