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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  might be occupied by every single one of your roommates you want to avoid ... recommend finding new roommates. You're going to want space and not be able ... apartment or go shopping by yourself or even go to the gym to clear your head

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  it’s far away, I figure by the time I get to graduation, I’ll be ... ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel ... year seems to go by now compared to how it felt in high school has made

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner ... the liberty to choose to be on a meal plan or instead rely on other food ... was a fun way for students to share beloved recipes with the campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  to Alpha Delta Phi. What happened? Well, it should be straightforward ... on the front and a phrase on the back: to be the best of men. One of ... Google Map search later, I was on the way there. Right now, the thought

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... orientation events that turned out to be either unrequired or just plain ... time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  I just got done with uploading way, way too much blog to the other ... being contacted by a wireless host called MCDONALDS. Yeah, I can't really ... it's Google, it very well might be. Now I'm off on a bus to Aix

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  rush. At CPW, everyone seemed to be working on something, and that may ... UROPs. Applying There’s a nifty website where you can search UROPs by ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the ... to be done during sleep to be effective, but that is what the data ... their tongue, their brains will still be able to process the signals and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  normal fashion only to be thrown radically off course a quarter way through ... solution and, yes, masks). There seemed to be only one possible conversation ... what the conversation was going to be about. If you had asked someone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... positive much more clearly than I would be able to when I just felt as if I ... is a repeated effort to search for new information and new ideas, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... a wooden pull toy. I am learning how to be a leader through dorm ... and letting myself be attracted to whoever I feel like.  [carousel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm ... being from a small-town or rural community.   As part of our commitment to ... was a fun way for us to break the ice and learn a little about each

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  've Learned", is quickly rising up in views to join its brothers with over 2 ... posts would have to be elaborately creative and quirky, like my older ones ... other anything and everything. Many say that the best time to be at MIT is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  was way too heavy--and therefore lost out to lighter planes that didn ... .87. And so we packed up Corn Dog and came home to MIT. We're going to be ... its way. For now, if you're ever in building 33, stop by the hangar and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I ... ? We have organized the office to be able to start taking phone calls ... -253-4791. We will be able to take calls from 9AM until 4PM EST. Please be aware

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to ... ceremony (and dinner!) to begin. Be back in ~1 hour. Day 1, 9 PM Ok, so ... 1993, but only became used by IBM to create transistors in 2007. Fin

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  I like to think that people are defined by two things — the values ... -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... nice to leave MIT vaguely knowing". The quick rationales for classes that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  .Feel free to choose something with some personality, if you like!A couple ways ... the people search; 2) point your web browser to http ... The Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way out the door. Formally known

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I ... 'd never tried Opera before, but I was inspired to download it by all your ... identify ourselves by our campus-wide login names on secure sites to do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007