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• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... semester.  Or, in more relatable teenager-money-terms, that's the equivalent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... teacher letters and school forms (such as transcripts) in three ways, listed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others ... one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... , perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a last bid to say goodbye

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are ... entire place and express great excitement over the light in the bathroom

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't ... /inspirational/beautiful/touching posts about life, admissions, and everything. MITAdmissions.org is, in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  . In Python, whitespace matters. In Java, just be sure you have brackets ... Subject Tests."] freshman = ["Freshman fall - In my MAS.110 Fundamentals of ... chapters before I got interested in doing other things."] sophomore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in ... more quick lunches in between classes, no more much-needed energy drinks ... beautiful sight in front of me: a crowd of students coming in and out of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  universities in metropolitan Boston that were listed on Wikipedia ... submit, if it's in NCBI's Taxonomy Database then the site will build a ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  .[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... ="I mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  experience in the "soft skills" department, but this post isn't about that. It ... existed in the first place. And now that I think about all the things I don ... 're having a conversation. What happens is that: I have this big picture in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... more unsure about majoring in 6-9. Wasn't really sure why I was feeling that way, since the obvious option is to major in something I liked to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To ... windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... one of over 10,000.   II) March 14th, 2021 In the months after

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... 's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021