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• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... in mind for future positions. A few days later, I got a response. I had ... bloggers can do that for you in the comments. For now, I’ll just tell you

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  in the horizon darkness narrow lamps, strange food for a four ... I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  for the first time,[/annotation] in my sixth semester here at MIT, and ... for me to tell them with any sort of objective lens. In another word ... possible for the people around us as well. It is also an affirmation, in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA ... can write programs for it (usually in C), download them onto the chip

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... theirs, either. In the September of my sixth grade, I skipped a meal for ... protein shake for dinner. I'd work out for an hour every day. I looked in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of ... contact the lab.  For example, I got my current UROP (in Langer Lab at the ... Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish, Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  another of my MIT friends in the city for the week, sat in on their women ... ’s Soul Food*, for lunch. Later, I met up with a couple friends in Union ... a two-hour journey up to an alumni’s home in Rye, NY for another

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in two years. mocha moves — for my 5th semester on mocha, i danced in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  for the yogurt parfait I make! This is low in fat, cholesterol, and ... .  All you have to do is put a banana in a freezer for about a day and ... in the oven for about twenty minutes.  The original way to make these

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  in the first place, and I thanked her for her kind understanding. Five ... . Yesterday, after a piano lab class in which I realized for the first time that ... will presumably buy MIT pens that they could have snagged for free in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  appreciation for the people and experiences in my life. To my to-be college ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  the one in charge for one more month, but in effect, they had already ... I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  that I took in. For our very brief trip to Block Island, my parents and I ... resonate within us. As my dad turned the key in the ignition for the first ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  people for 7 days in the desert. The month of august has been a great busy ... included in the cost of your tuition is now a $40 extra membership fee for ... sign for orientation check-in. What the hell. :P

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  summer? Astrophysics UROP Where? The Kavli Institute for Space Research in ... ... that's cheerleadery, isn't it? Jess '08 Well-- I'm in Italy studying architecture in the Veneto Area (around Venice)... mainly the work of Carlo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on ... 've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... 't really care, stay for the pretty pictures, mmmk? Mmmk. Alright here's the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  will be funneled to the rooms in the back for styling and fitting ... Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT Gala, our student-run fashion show! Originally conceptualized in 2023 as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  . Suddenly, studying for a test, grinding out a PSET in the library, and ... I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024