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• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need to interview a friend, a faculty member, President Reif, Barack Obama

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  was a much-needed reminder that beyond the dog-eat-dog rat race, cooking ... understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... garnished with a tomato rose. The Dantean heart recipe was the result of much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... . If you're emailing your EC, you may want a subject line that refers to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  of RFID. You should read the article, because it does a much better job ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to ... a company called Kovio, which apparently was founded by MIT alum Colin

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  a minority. I asked him how being in the city does to one’s mental ... : Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... world around us, created by a different wiring and development of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  needed to take part in a challenge to motivate myself to explore new ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... [/annotation] to spend time. i once again need multiple creative outlets to feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  for Hasbro so I need to find time for that. Oh, and did I mention that ... worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... much? Yes methinks, back to tooling . . .

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a ... good things" goes, but you can't deny that he's super smart. Maybe just a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  miraculous by definition, I sometimes wonder — what does it mean to be a human ... have much to learn from the world around us. My friends and I joke that ... means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  't want to listen to other people worry that a 770 means they're not smart ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... become a blog-worthy experience. (Seriously, Conner 2 people are going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... come up with the right details to describe a character, small things that show what they do and what they think, the space they create in a scene

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a ... , but he fell asleep and said he had too much work to do.   Frozen yogurt ... stormed off to Red Mango by myself, and I had a wonderful opportunity to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to ... my pizza horizons - I used to be a strictly mozzarella, or mozzarella ... my class: a dozen, maybe, or more. People want to learn about what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  THINK (a super cool program that high schoolers should apply to!! Deadline ... lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  of progress has been made, but there's still quite a bit left to create ... some 8 blocks and you need to somehow make it look like a bedroom. Lots ... location before a Minecraft Map of that area could be created. Trying to draw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020