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• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... class.  This year, however, we had a record high number of admitted

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  from home, like the weird practice of tipping, or how there’s functional ... . The leaves changing color? Happens too quickly. Really, so much of the big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and ... . It's about humanity. Y'all talking about 12 years of oxygen, talkin

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was ... "]machine learning[/annotation] algorithms, and the minutiae of [annotation note="6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort."]hard music problems.[/annotation] Last week, a (non-blogger) friend of mine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican ... trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public ... the dome decoration is here.) It must have taken a lot of work and it ... , East Campus lets us store things in the basement free of charge, so I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me. Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... Social Sciences) community. Some of our professors are widely recognized

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  intimidatingly) as a “bomb cyclone” hit us yesterday with a foot of snow, and it ... negative sign in front of it, you really stop caring what you look like.  Plus, that ridiculous hood does a great job of keeping the snow and wind

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  I emerge from three weeks of being fairly hosed WITH MORE COOL DATA ... . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... of my friends were going. They tried to convince me, but I didn't want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016