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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  there's one thing I don't want to do after getting home late, it's study ... had given lip service to the idea that you could get a research job, if ... manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  makes much more sense to pass out of bio and get a head start on ... as many classes as I could. The opportunity to get out of a semester ... to get a software internship over the summer, which will give me even

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms overall. The plan was to create some questions and disseminate them through

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  the window, so when it gets cold I tape/fasten the curtains to the frame ... Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here ... annotation feature it's been hard not to annotate every single thing, so this

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

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  .  You get to remember what past you cared about; there’s also something so idyllic about recalling the ‘good old times.’ You also get to review past ... resonate with. You get to showcase your thoughts, and people who resonate

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  students at MIT and it helped me a ton. I was able to get advice while choosing a dorm and Ashhad A. ’23 also helped me get from the airport to ... undergraduate population. So, you don't want to be missing out on getting to know

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to ... really want to break it down: Turn phone off. (Hard!) Get up. Walk ... shower. Wait for it to warm up. Get in the shower. Shower. Get out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper ... this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For more on MIT AIAA, check this out. Photos from the event to follow.

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  did a little jig (Yes, I do that too) and went winging off to Google to ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  . Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there ... So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  , come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends ... able to constantly stride around the city like I knew it so well. Hopping ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  Campbell is? Like, 50? And then what subset of those 50 want to get a book ... potatoes. What did my mom have to endure to get to her favorite pizza in the ... cultures should happen on the day I was getting ready to leave one for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super ... on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene ... it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  getting on campus in February, I was very excited to get makerspace training ... most part, a fine time. We did struggle with getting people to turn on ... After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and all-male mentors. Then, Ariel and I actually went back to our own high ... one exception to these starkly male environments has been MIT. From my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... some fast, diverse recipes to get you through the semester. 42 ... from WILG taught me how to do this. It’s a great way to get meat and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013