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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There ... , the thought of doing this for years and years after I graduate, you know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past ... townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total ... luxurious apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, two of those friends the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  physically and mentally. I learned a lot of lessons that have forever changed my MIT experience. This semester I did all of my psets early. I ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of ... time of the semester when [insert vague statement about being hosed].” I ... conversations are a game. There’s a set of rules most people follow in which one

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of ... around for a few more hours until the end of the party. and when everyone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of ... January 4, when I returned to campus after winter break. *The TA of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh ... , when students go to tons of fun events at dorms to explore different

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  ”, my life would change forever. People say that this type of media, a ... , heavens forbid, the MIT Admissions Blogs, but cases of nonfiction books ... illustrations of the common feral pigeon on the page. I’d never realized the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club ... difference. by being president of this student group, maybe i could push for it ... want me to succeed, because of course your professor wants you to pass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... -side lounge and kitchen. PUF spent the summer enjoying a variety of activities ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  ="aligncenter" width="432"] oh my god is one of its arms coming OUT of its pecs?? ok well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... a deeper understanding of how the brain produces intelligent behavior

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New Zealand, this happened as well; they took away roughly 30% of my paycheck

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  blog, you know it’s been kind of weird lately. Life was cancelled, people ... meant I have housing at least till the end of the semester, so I didn ... could write about how much I long for the usual hustle and bustle of MIT

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who were admitted ... the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you do.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  movement Get a U-Haul. A dolly. Quite a few people, at least two of them need to be strong. Coordinate! Don't wait until the morning of to put ... organ donor. If there are too many people to fit in the front of the U

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who ... , I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you do.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019