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• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  that I should've worked harder in my classes, even though I also know ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a ... less. i have never ordered a venti in my LIFE. before we reached the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and ... the day. Where are you reading? I'm lucky I live in the suburbs and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The Source in Buena Park, Baekjeong on Beach Blvd, my aunt's house in Cerritos ... back in California because every memory here is now slightly tainted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  .e. not planning on flaking, in contrast with light blue). yellow are ... block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... ). There's one place called Yume wo Katare (夢を語れ), also in Porter, that has

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies ... , like finishing up my IAP class assignments and moving rooms in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... year, the brothers participate in a rather chaotic room assignment ... ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college, in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but ... the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... and cheeses live. In fact, I drew them in pencil, traced them in pen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  guess that at your high school–just as in many high schools–the days you spend in class might go something like this: 1. Introduce a specific ... of these times they might write a problem and have you solve it in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  in an amazing urban environment (aka Cambridge/Boston) where there ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... very different from running through checklists in your head or ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They Call Me Yankee, that I was spending my summer in Houston, Texas working ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014