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  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be ... doing all the right things, and, as a complete side effect, you’ll be cast ... can be used to practice for the SAT and ACT.   Name: Khan Academy

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... with the “big lighter” and the sushi knife). Looks pro but to be honest ... . You don’t even have to physically be there (during the cooking process

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  , so those two classes will count towards the master's program I'll be ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... into the room (although to be honest it's hard to sneak into an eight

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  my basement! AdMITs attending the virtual CPW this year will be the ... stickiness. Cross stitching was the stickiest. File this post away under ... ? I suck at actual art. You know, the kind with shading, swoopy stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  explanation for why I disliked it could be anything. Was it the technologies we ... however many lines you write. Writing might be the least clear connection ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like anyone I know was the week before their college applications were due, you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the ... that whatever decision i make will be fine. i wrote this entire post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and post-MIT) experience. Identifying as a hipster-sans-the-fashion, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... tried to avoid being the 1,000th person who said they would want to travel ... will find your community of people, as long as you have the courage to go

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern ... traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive ... Today we're releasing our decisions regarding transfer applicants who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... [/annotation] wasn't necessarily indicative of how big the group chat would be. Among ... .034 but found it very enjoyable, while the opposite can be said of 6.006. IV

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  upstairs in the houses and patios overlooking secret courtyards. Being here ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  -size rat darts up the bank—that we could not be anyone else, that because we ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  was cold but the conversations kept me warm, and being there was the ... while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  somehow surviving the treacherous Boston weather. Being an MIT student, he ... its potential mootriculation, made us think that the Milk might be best ... , I suspect, won't be departing MIT anytime soon. I have embedded the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015