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  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and ... too :o"]2 days for Thanksgiving[/annotation]. Then, it's 3 more weeks of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his ... unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead ... in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  ." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too ... you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  ! ------------------------------------- Brendan wrote, "My athletics coach only sends letters of recommendation directly to the admissions office. In this case, the letter of recommendation ... won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• 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 / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• 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 / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of ... before noon since Massachusetts is an hour ahead of Texas and I didn't go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... [/caption] Suddenly, the end date for my stay was years away instead of days or weeks

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... myself to the mat, unable to progress beyond the most rudimentary of levels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you ... admissions today on MIT FB, and it reminds me of the time when I applied to MIT ... Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab, talking about the most futuristic interfaces

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• 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