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• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that ... 's climate in terms of how hot or windy or humid it is and pack accordingly

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  look like tickets would be higher in price by Monday? How much extra would that be? Are there other websites to look at? And then I realized ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Chaine asked, How do you schedule your UROP hours? I've noticed in the ... organized. I would love to have a file cabinet in my dorm. Is that allowed? Will I be able to find one in campus? (possibly for free?) I would hate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  my macros. Which honestly in retrospect is terrible given how much I ... I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  on,” I thought, “is that how liquids should behave in real life? Those ... were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  someone who hasn’t changed their Chipotle order in years, I appreciate how ... bc I got his name verbally) is an ABSOLUTE GEM!! His energy would brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  wasn’t. Every dinner, I would gorge on stir-fry and Danish pastries and ... meals throughout the day; I got most of my calories in two giant portions ... celebrity drop-ins (and I doubt Tyra Banks or Robert Plant will visit Senior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... them grow. but considering how dead I am after dancing in only half the ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  engage in my social media ritual without the guilt I usually would have if ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  engineering in mit, but dont know how to do that! i am taking SAT in february ... Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty ... was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lived in SF for over a decade, you'd think that by now I would have found ... they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  explanation; I had crafted it carefully while waiting in line. What would his ... questions like: “How much Force power can Yoda output?” “What would ... punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be?” “What would

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... living in a hostel -- I imagine that would be draining after a month ... my life. I'm really, really glad I did it. But would I do it again in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• 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 ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

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

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... introduced me to, and which I think about a lot MIT websites (5) "Emerson

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• 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 ... , but I’m from a dry place, and good lord, save yourself and either buy or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015