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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  site that Ben Jones created, where we could all check in and get to know ... actually succeed in the environment of your choosing. MIT taught me how to ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  get freaked out by blood (thankfully, since I'm planning on going to med ... video that shows how they got the mosaics from Turkey to Washington, D ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  to realize that its students need to get out more, so we actually have ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  heart going to the poetry store in harvard square with alan and getting ... me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in ... more things in my emotional toolbox to pull from when i'm faced with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  , too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved ... : Sometimes the text included with the puzzle gives you hints as to how to solve ... much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... language, Scratch was an invaluable stepping stone in my journey to pursuing computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you ... 're not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  . Enjoy the little things in life. Whether that be getting to the T stop ... worth it. I take it all in and try to just do it. Sometimes I fail ... about myself in the process. After all, it's only when we're pushed to our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you ... their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... early decision or early action to a lot of really awesome schools. So in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  , figure out what you want to say, and then figure out how to say it ... ) thing that the reader/admission officer needs to know in order to ... .  How am I supposed to know what is most important? Me:  You decide what

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to ... : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note ... next time I need to get from a meeting in the Welcome Center to Simmons

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own ... really got the chance to get superrrr close to people. This didn’t mean I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  chocolate science). So if you've ever wanted a chance to get some in ... in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  had to get it done during IAP. Maybe in just one night. I went in to ... .670 was all-day, in-person class that lasted two days. We learned how to use ... instructions got me thinking about how to use lathes and mills in a way that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... has unlimited cheese samples, but Ben & Jerry's is easier to get to ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  than if I had locked myself in my room trying to get good grades that are ... took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008