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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  discount. The idea was that by the end of the month, all those classes would ... perfectly normal thing to do when writing a novel. Little by little, I ... . For a couple of foggy weeks, in there I was gripped by the paralyzing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  differed from the predictions, as if offended by our blatant stereotyping of ... class was also very over-enrolled this semester, but by simply reaching ... ago, I was instantly plagued by bouts of longing and home sickness, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... -science/advanced-combinatorics hybrid had me stumped. I have since then—by which I mean, a few seconds ago ... amazed by it, and understand that over the course of the upcoming semesters

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  Mindsets Orientation was followed by Rush, a week-long event in which ... fraternities had been merrily supplied by a few American movies I'd watched ... college experience not defined in bulk by beer pongs and drunk friends, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  'm starting to be recognized linguistically and culturally by the Chinese ... method of keeping up with Chinese is by chatting with my students, friends ... a means by which I could practice and improve my Chinese, which I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years? The answer was MIT by a landslide. It helped that I already had an ... to get some kind of perspective on what's out there should start by ... written by professional mathematicians exposes you to insights you might not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  Lila's recipe below! World's Best Ribs By Lila F. '13 This morning as I ... decided on a trustworthy and well established source: Simply Recipes by ... the Dr. Pepper sauce from Simply recipes for this step, and judging by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  . Sarah '09 came by my room at 11, but I was still frantically writing. I ... for today.) By the way, somewhere in there MIT finally caught up with ... complete by now. And then, well, who the hell knows. Not me.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  best of it and kill two birds with one stone by taking a class that ... that I did - the same way that we all do. Interesting fact (confirmed by ... find those classes. Also, by MAJOR I meant that if you have 18.01 credit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  . Each person was photographed in their room after being heavily prepped by ... Home Depot to buy paint. We ended up buying the paint "Royal Academy" by ... when we came by to photograph them, so only Lauren is pictured above

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  ultimately how everything ended. Unfortunately, I'm still so overloaded by ... 're supposed to use the nth letter of each Latin fish name, as dictated by the ... the number 6 was missing earlier we should sort them alphabetically by

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ://www.xobni.com/) which was founded by my friend, Adam Smith. They got their start through ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too ... be aware of. Reading those essays by Paul Graham and always thinking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  have their neighbors be eaten by countries, have entries dedicated to ... why this post is so late.. I'm really tired by the time I make it ... bored by the monotony (and you probably will), do something new. Start a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  it gets counterintuitive for you; to be effective you must say more by ... child! Whenever I'm recruiting for MIT I start my presentation by stating ... major or program, your child may lose funding by simply changing his

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by ... )—the same magazine a younger me was utterly entranced by at an alum family

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  walk on the beach and Catching Fire at the movie theater by the yoga ... sauce. Put them in the oven for 45 minutes as prescribed by the box they ... by tilting the pan in a circular motion. The first crepe will take a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  by other teams (HUGE shoutout to FRC teams 6731, 10063, 1153, 4123 ... sketching ideas, testing designs, and throwing out suggestions side by side

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  felt comforted by MIT's "need-blindness" because of the sheer amount of ... thing to attend MIT. In fact, I have net earned money from MIT by

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  react to this by berating ourselves for “not working hard enough.”  When ... enjoy. In fact, I think being at MIT, surrounded by people who make me the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  all my materials so they would arrive to campus by the time I got there ... by the shore, wash it, boil it for a while to get rid of anything it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025