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• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  of my work ended up being rote, and i could have advocated for myself ... make things a lot harder for others, who then have to pick up the slack ... my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... even if i don’t end up becoming friends with the person telling the ... empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  instinct was Method 2, you'd also show a natural talent for parallel parking ... up until you're perfectly centered. (By the same reasoning, people who ... pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  anyone who could come up with the best demonstration of chemical wit. My ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster. "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  's true for yourself. So sometimes I like to shake up the class that way ... .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up ... of the transcription for clarity and/or space saving Introductions

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , being the head chef for the “Night at the Art Gallery” pop-up was ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... way I do. I cook because it is the perfect hobby for a busy lifestyle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... . This means that if you get a passing grade (70-100) it will show up on your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs types (though, he did stress that this was really just for fun). Curious ... few other tests besides.   Debunking Myers-Briggs My result for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... and practice my Spanish speaking skills. The course would end up ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it is hard for me to express how impressed and jealous I am. Growing up ... ended up designing my own, hands-on activities for the students. Since I ... , it probably wouldn't even qualify as a city. Where is it? Up in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  this pan is going places oh, and i guess i am too

  

  total of [annotation note="a pit stop was made for an older brother ... [annotation note="Burton-Conner"]cook-for-yourself dorm ... the first product listed on the buy it for life website! And on NYT

  • by Emily P. '28
  • September 13, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  ="126911" image5="126914" image6="126912" /] I'll take a moment here to bring up ... 600 stops around the Boston area, and I find them super convenient for ... around $150 for unlimited 45-minute rides on classic bikes and $0.10/minute

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  personal home for the past three years. Our tour guide, Maddie L. ‘26, is a ... ’s head over there and meet up with our next tour guide: Natalie B. ‘25 ... we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  unfiltered thoughts. which may or may not be a good thing. what have i been up ... chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long ... week, and then staying up really late on thursday night and going to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  buildings were little toy models. I was sad, but I was also excited. Up until ... infinite. I was filled with boyish wonder, and I was ready for my grand ... week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  . We're trading pumpkin dances for turkeys and Christmas carols sung ... mid-semester work than coming up with an awesome costume, but such is ... Shaws. My suite upped its decoration game after one of our freshmen, Jimmy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  alike compete to think up and build innovative software and hardware projects over the span of 24 hours. Throughout the week leading up to Hack ... opportunities for artists, engineers, business people, and entrepreneurs alike to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place ... ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... ways, and if you end up at another school, who knows what values you will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012