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• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have been such a cozy, homey place for me, a respite ... one year left. I found out I have ADHD? But I guess a lot of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  this is a guest blog post from my dear friend aidan chambers '23 who ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... a urop,[annotation note="lab assistant, aka office hours staff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full-time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a conservative, simple choice is usually better. the central ramen (shoyu) is a good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  the first Festival here. This post is the second of a series of three ... . This post is just a fraction of the fascinating information I absorbed at ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal ... one of which will comprise my thesis and the next year and a half of my ... may or may not be able to read without being on a college wifi network

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A ... workshops, unmoderated talks, a Concert of the Internet (ft. Group X, Lemon

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a ... got there after what should have been little more than a 5 minute walk I

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry, which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street to do a book signing in December

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Foundries. It's also a (heavily subsidized) ski trip! Because MARC isn't only ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to ... English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them. emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my posts. I made a Spotify playlist if you want to listen to them all: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wP6Lb5qZ0B9NXAjwsFYyl?si=2c079440422a4f32 I've had to make some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  family. I miss my friends. I miss MIT. I miss having a normal life. After ... : Gravity Falls is a story about two twins, Dipper and Mabel, who move to ... . At first, it seems a little boring and janky, but the twins quickly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here's a recent one: Jim Olson '74, OG MacG resident, answered some questions I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... ’d recommend looking back at your revision history. Not only is it a cringey ... because the prompt confused me a LOT. I spent many nights lying awake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018