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  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... needed nothing from them at all, and I had let it get to me a bit too much ... has been well received. People listen to what I have to say, they value

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to ... . “Oh no! How dare they ask a simple get-to-know-you question instead of ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  you want to immediately go to bed when you get there. It's the sort of ... way to get around, because you leave the driving to someone else, and get a decent amount of legroom (and time to yourself) in the process

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... . Certainly students who don't report their ethnicity get admitted to MIT. If

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... 'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get ... 'll get tons of opportunities to travel and see other cultures and maybe

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Princeton. This is an amazing talk. You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  "](bars),[/annotation] but even with so many options to choose (don't get me started on our ... ="new room tour blog coming???"]deciding to get out of my dorm ... A Love Letter to Tatte August 30th, 2025 Dearest Tatte, It has been

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ’t get admitted to MIT, I will personally ship you Maseeh dining until you ... So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this ... 've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  of waiting and not knowing, and want to get back to you as quickly as ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow ... obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... have to work for them. This observation was prompted by the fact that sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  's a pretty sweet deal. You get to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet and yoga, sing to each other, and get occasional master classes from ... "MIT Shuffle," so I usually try to leave at about 8:50 to get to your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf. At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  ™,[/annotation] here's my advice: Get to the airport so early that you learn that you ... while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if ... while (still only 30 minutes though) Head straight to Shake Shack Get

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new ... , and would get to work on lots of cool projects related to my interests ... .5 years of getting my ass handed to me academically in undergrad. Maybe that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... send them to us as soon as they’re available. Don’t worry; they’ll get ... documents to you via postal mail?No — it won't get here in time. I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  :02: T-2 mins… Time to get calculator, pencil, eraser, periodic table ... to get lunch. Run to Masseh to get food to-go. 13:57: Run through the Infinite, weaving through people to get to Building 66. 14:05: Made it just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016