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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  being drawn. How does the angle of the eyebrow compare to the angle at ... opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out ... been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  high enough to test out of the class, does that mean you are qualified to ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... community college in which we literally took turns snoring away in the back of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  gave me a good 40 minutes of uncomfortable thought, exploring the same ... your schedule. Easy, over, done. However, the nature of MIT lends itself to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  how to give an honest assessment of myself is probably one of the most ... burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... beginning of the semester – my UROP was going really well and I realized that

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with ... remember one of the students asking, "so, this is going to take forever ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up-the ... good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... veggie dishes most. Here’s a tumblr post containing many of the things I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... is the only mailing list I ever took myself off of, because I stopped

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  project, so it does not look as good as it did in the paper we based the ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... it resulted in some sort of 3D art! Here are some of the things we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  that you really like chemistry. Me: Haha, yeah! Good start to the summer ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period ... for the rest of the summer: Monday: Train to Charlottesville, VA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  partially because I’m more of the sit-silently-and-get-good-grades type1—but ... else. It can be completely off the grid. One of my good friends from MIT spent a good part of the summer hitchhiking up the west coast, and she

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  of the syllables "schla" and "nguy"*.) Having a simple yet so complex ... facebook-stalking (ah, the wonders of modern technology). A lot of people ... roommate the morning of the lottery, who turns out to be your soulmate - just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends, Aidan Chambers, is pretty good at chess and played it all the time while ... . I met Chambers. You might've heard of him. He's that guy from the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company - there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  added happiness. Neither does scrolling on social media. Keep the people ... languages. There’s a joy in learning for the sake of learning. Or petting dogs ... one of my closest friends at MIT. She introduced me to her UROP, and the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  beginning of the month, but MyMIT still does not indicate interview ... . ------------------------------------- Scott wrote, "I was wondering how much each part of the application is ... . ------------------------------------- Minh wrote, "When submitted the Part1 of the form, I have asked for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020