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each member of the MIT community the ability and passion for working wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.
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FAQ / First-year application
Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?
We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and we don't send any international mail), but you can sign up for our ... requests for pennants, t-shirts, and other MIT items, but because we're a -
Blog / How to Food
IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho
I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for -
Blog / People & Identities
Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories
show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... . I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)
get a few additional features if you are a student! I love Notion for a ... have language-specific syntax highlighting!) and LaTeX support. For ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban -
Blog / Challenges
my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"
't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... ! i'm bracing myself for another terrible semester. i keep telling ... .804 (Computational Cognitive Science) - i've been waiting to take this class for a -
Blog / Uncategorized
Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP
have gained many rights, the reality for transgender folks (particularly trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their ... setbacks within your individual context. For example, if I am reading an -
Blog / Academics & Research
Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*
.03 happens to be a requirement for both of those options, so hopefully it ... Machine Learning: I’m pretty excited for this class, both for the material ... Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus, Part 1
have such different calender schedules? For example, are there issues ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for example. But it may be getting easier for fall term cross registration -
Blog / Travel
clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late
In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may… -
Blog / Athletics
Lax bros and their workflows
Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, I work as a learning assistant for ... . Isaiah: I’ve been playing lacrosse for 11 years now, starting when I was 10 years old. For almost all of those years, I’ve played on the defensive -
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Blog / Uncategorized
Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality
a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We ... 've decided that it's time for me to go back to my roots. no drawing could ... " align="alignnone" width="300"] CJ: "if i had a nickel for every time i had -
Blog / Challenges
Under Water catch your breath
known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... studied hard for the biology exam right up until the last minute, and passed ... the majority of my finals week. Then I studied for the next exam -
Blog / Community Projects
[Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen
! Pretty vibey, it’s going! Amber: Let’s start with your elevator pitch for ... RoboBoat again this year! We’re also building a submarine platform for ... in recruiting? Audrey: We are looking for all majors and years! From -
Blog / Summer
what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs
perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees ... Cambridge, but I'd have to search for housing in San Francisco. Also, I knew ... contractor work for them. I'm doing everything from content writing to full -
Blog / Miscellaneous
2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions
Celebration, a three-day conference for women in computer science. It was so ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science ... ended up getting an honorable mention for our work with aligned.space. Go -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language
If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way -
Blog / Extracurriculars
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I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a ... setting myself up for failure by promising myself full blogs about ... celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for
