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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

  

  Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I ... place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to MBTA stations. If you’re looking for a cafe with delicious food… This is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... class before—the homework for each class is to do readings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  on some stupid quest for chicken nuggets and end up in some apocalyptic ... Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time ... right now - class of '10). Alright, I'm sorry! (for this being totally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  cheesy ice breaker which somehow takes up the remaining 40 minutes of the class period. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Six times for six classes, for (what ... has their own subjective view of what boring is. For instance, some find

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  game, and then another, and I even ended up visiting Vancouver for a ... blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  classes only meet twice a week for 1.5 hours, which is new for me since my previous classes met three times a week for 1 hour. This is a double ... Friday (🎉🎉🎉), but then I have to give my full attention for 1.5 hours

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  before showing up to pre-season. The journey is not the same for everyone ... for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while definitely intimidating and tiring at times, ended up being a great decision

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• 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 ... high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  escalators reach over to their neighbors on the up escalators for high-fives as ... -person. We wrapped up the night by heading to Chinatown and sitting down for ... (two words: big data), how fan culture and fan production works for no

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  school students." M.I.T.'s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to ... Chris Mills write blogs for its admissions site. Mark Wilson for The New ... her hall has its own wiki Web site and an Internet Relay for real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  for blogging, for some reason, I usually just end up having literary ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to ... more refined word choice, subtle humor, and poignant advice. For it was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I've heard that Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is absolutely awesome - I haven ... MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question, saying, "Thanks for the info; although it may seem strange to care about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  before I opened up my decision, and for once, things actually went as I ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this a bit later. I was scheduling a different blog for today, but then I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the ... split the class into 10 teams of approximately 100 kids, and for every ... held up with midterms and only finished this post today. "]September 23

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra ... instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022