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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to convey a few revelations I’ve had recently. This was adapted from an essay

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by ... interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would look kind of gross to first-day-of-fall-semester me, a prospective Course

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my email address is. If your question is a general one, I prefer that you ... "what are my chances" questions. I simply can't answer them on a case

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  (being a biologist, E. coli make me nervous)... bad news. So after making a few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  "](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly a marsh ahead of the camp site. [carousel image1="119561" image2

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine, fine, I'll explain. Once a year, And that's where I stopped my draft, mid

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a ... Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/30.12.2024_14.16.29_REC.mp4"][/video] Have a day everyone!

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film ... ’m not the biggest Marvel fan, but I still know a few things about what has ... dorm at MIT) will appear in a few scenes. There will be some car chase

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few hundred million dollars per quarter). valuation is a subjective number

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the ... basically a whole meal every hour for a week. When I finally slowed down, they had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... sofas and you are set! McCormick Front Lawn - all you need is a picnic blanket or a hammock and you are set. The big lecture halls (10-250 or 21

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... guitar. This has become a pretty intense hobby in the past few months; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020