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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... . Its coastal views of the northeast are familiar to me, and its spotty Wi

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... pretense of also wanting to help do the daily crossword puzzles. [caption id ... Anika and here are all my hobbies and interests” from force of habit

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of ... mostly not talking to anyone outside of class, gave us the reputation of ... , we were both scared and even averse to the idea of our reputation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  measured like four cups of rice, filled it water up to the line that said "4 ... . Apparently you can add it to lots of other things too. Was it good? Yes ... -worthy pictures of good cooking. So here is your license to cook imperfectly, and to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major ... what it means to be a fan of something and how fan cultures change and ... from 7th grade to junior year of high school scouring different fandoms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  , but they’re also things I’ve chosen to carry with me; they’re part of me ... lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man ... the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... there, as well as some here, made me think of something to post: namely ... request the name of some other nearby EC who'll be happy to talk with you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA ... ."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a ... made sure to use the color of the corresponding vector. Here’s a somewhat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  undergrads, none of us having been to India before. After two days of touring ... students to MIT lingo, or enduring the horrors of [annotation note="https://catmario.eu/"]Cat Mario[/annotation], I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  combination of Percocet and Ibuprofen, and am proud to say that today I graduated to eating an entire stick of string cheese. It's just as well, because I need fuel for the TRULY OBSCENE AMOUNT OF WORK I HAVE TO DO OVER

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the successes of my freshman fall. When I stopped to breathe between psets, I ... to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this ... , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o ... colleges, I knew that I wanted to do lots of humanities classes even if I ... to graduate early…   4 semesters of TA/LA-ing I’ve done a bit

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help ... the resources to teach it. Would MIT distrust the score because of that ... 't sure what method to use, by writing 2 answers on the paper, you actually

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  math evaluation which I made sure to be sent in the early weeks of ... . Also, according to some discussion on CC, some of people don' report ... . Also, a very happy New Year to all of you!" No problem -- I've forwarded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... . So, of course, my friend managed to persuade me to print some sheet music and go to auditions. Rational Part Of Brain: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING" Me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most ... I went to Japan⁠—which was every year of high school. the second and ... flowers next to the photo of my grandfather. it was a rough start to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... 't really come to discover the quirky little dorm until the last day of CPW ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019