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• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  applying to MIT in the fall and was wondering how many SAT II tests I must ... grade. 1) I've taken the Korean SAT II and did well. How would it seem if ... would happen if I didn't get McCormick in the housing lottery. I liked the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... Yields: One sandwich that I have been told resembles something you can buy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  likely to stay in place, with major policy changes. When I ask how my ... ...” or “but their real motivation was...” I realize that the attitude, in ... capital ‘F’, is very different in places like Ethiopia. Instead, I am seeing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  concert back in august![/caption] hello blog!!! my name is sarah and i am a ... reminisce for a quick second, i remember reading the blog for the 1st time in ... featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... dislike bowling unless I get a strike/a spare, not sure how much I would ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  [/annotation] taking uni finals, and I thought this would be my last round, but alas, I ... , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals ... . This means that I've been studying in smaller, but more frequent and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the ... so I would often talk to her about her blogs, and see her post them. It

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... other in years. I'm sure there were other people I knew previously at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... that still hangs in my grandparent’s house. I taught myself how to draw

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually ... and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  move-in because I felt I would get too lazy to ever set it up afterward ... ="64141" /] I was the first person in my suite to arrive on campus (I arrived at 8 ... group room. I was nicely pleased with how much space we had just for our

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  -hand experience. Back in the nascent dawn of Fall semester, I joined the Tech staff ... about the action.” To which I respond, “How clever of you, I was just ... terrible excuse for a blogger if I didn't throw in a word or twelve about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and ... in the gear); I found that sticker in the TechX storage room, when me ... I found on the floor in Boston Logan (gotta stay fresh and rock what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  realized how important having readable code was when I needed to build upon other people’s. And I only realized how important good commit messages are ... that I need to buy a new laptop. I do hope that my laptop can last me at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... past semester I asked my family to teach me how to cook the foods I love

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  better. I think one of the most important things I've learned in my time ... Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student ... together a free summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer. As I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010