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• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... had now somehow come out of my computer and invaded the real, physical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  happy to introduce you to MacGregor, MIT's only dorm composed of all ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries"; an entry forms the basic social unit of the dorm. The entries are named

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS?” “What does MIT do as part of it?” and “How can it help me?” Well, the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a wide variety of things, rice and not rice, which make it a worthy ... more than a week's worth of food. The first thing I made was tomatoes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  recommendations for me, please let me know! Some of my favorite books are ... some sort of coding competition, like BattleCode, weblab, or Poker ... /play Just so I can see how this year went. I like keeping track of the media I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use ... list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh ... something right now. Here are some of my favorite pieces from the semester

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... interaction reduces the amount of time you have to think yourself into misery. I ... training. Five sets of six core exercises- there’s a variety of these; push

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... without falling asleep, leaving me with a total of an hour and a half before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a ... along the way.   There was the First Church of Christ Scientist and it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... of moving objects. Rolling, oscillating, and spinning. You name a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... campus right now. Basically, each freshman has an advisor: a member of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  this summer, there's lots of Pats chat to catch up on. As for the ... to routinely and regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... applications, and we won't start admitting anyone until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012