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• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  internet. In other words, you can use up to 2 gigs of web space as an MIT student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I ... can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant ... semester i tell myself i am as busy as can be, and then the next semester i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  YOUR HAIR HAS ROOM FOR! Need more color in your hair? We can fix that ... :17-24:17 All the ponies in this town are CRAZY. Do you like ponies? I like ponies ... Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... where you might fit in here. Your MIT experience can be really different

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be ... of this vote, but I’ll be okay because I have my fort! Yes, my fort is ... . Others There a few other groups that I'm not very involved in. There's a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this ... fast, sometimes, especially in calculus, but I'd rather be a little

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  right. In the process of helping build a very large fort, I picked up a ... declared a double major in CMS (Comparative Media Studies) so that I can get ... Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place ... . my room in 5th west is kinda messy   I like it here. I don't want ... the impostor syndrome slightly creeping in, where I sometimes question

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  either boil sweet potatoes, then peel them... Or you can cheat and buy yams in a can. Blend the sweet potatoes with a little water or milk. Add ... , so here it goes. Disclaimer: I kinda eyeballed everything and nothing

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... colloquialization as the vant-dooze. Can you believe how beautiful the view of the St ... , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  restaurant you were expecting eleven and having them spit in your sushi. I ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Green Building stairs when I can just live all my 3.5 years on campus in ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out ... Carroll, Alice In Wonderland I’ve been re-re-re-re-rewriting this post ... -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  So you all know that I come from South Florida. (And if you didn't, then look! You do now!) In Fort Lauderdale, we don't have seasons. Sure, it gets cold in that wet, drippy way that makes you feel like you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006