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  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ...  Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19 ... there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one.   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... 2000 The place: Stata Center, 32-141. The time: a dusky 9:00 AM on the first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and effects. It can be both a terrible and potentially wonderful thing. It ... complete a task such as a problem set or a test or a long trip. It can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... - YOU HAVE A PHONE IN HERE??"), because most people have cell phones, which is a lot more efficient. But here are things you SHOULD bring: 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011