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• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  It's time for another Questions Omnibus... Mike wrote (re: MIT ... for Early Action because the post office is messed up currently. I can get the materials postmarked for November first but I am not sure if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  eduroam, I had an internet connection without even trying. I waited for my ... crowdsourcing to give real-time bus tracking, but it was also useful for paying ... and ginataan for my ILG, ET, and that it wasn't a total disaster. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that ... representative for SAAS(South Asian Association of Students), a member of the Mech ... pages of Cosmos and i felt so proud of myself that i played minecraft for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five ... , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... for life now. It also has an MIT Mechanical engineering carabiner on it ... too much work ^^;) and then like random stuff I use for being a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each ... 't enough. I could spend all day every single day for weeks studying and ... kid who studied for a couple hours and got it. Lesson #1: Hard work and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... are currently four options for learning communities: Terrascope ... about DesignPlus, or D+ for short! As the name suggests, it’s oriented

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips ... signup for downhill skiing, so I went cross country skiing instead. Unlike ... for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of ... personal apology to the BC front desk (and also mother nature) for being ... very useful for cave studying/knitting/chilling. 4.5/5 stars   Main

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... . averting morning brain drain This routine has been especially helpful for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  -motivated undergrads; overall, a win-win situation for everyone involved. Additionally ... doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... current lab for the past two semesters. In the fall, I fabricated magnetic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... , partially because I had given up on trying to dodge his small children for ... know if you ever want a job," he told me, "I've been looking for a Super

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and ... a turn, and dipped inside the nearest store to ask the owner for ... chatted with another customer while waiting for him to get back.   

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors ... caffeine. i just do it for the thrill of having my heart race. so that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki ... the 1990s called "特别的爱给特别的你", commonly translated as "Special Love for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022