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• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  less willing to wake up than I was in high school. Seriously, how did I ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... You need a surge protector. In fact, you probably need two, so buy three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of ... air travel, you'd think I I would never step foot on a plane again. When

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .012/18.014/18.022/18.024 in that it's mainly for folks who love challenging themselves or would ... early on in High School it's been an interesting experience that I have ... development in third world countries. While I've currently dropped the seminar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• 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

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  minutes cringing and rolling around in bed, looking like this: How did ... Facebook (in which case, I have to forcefully pluck my eyes off cute cat ... would the app do that their current website already didn’t? An app for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... . Look, I know how anxious this topic makes you. Guess what, so does your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... your financial documents, email [email protected]. Q: How do I schedule an ... Bridge application is being used in place of the MIT application). Q: I've already

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• 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 / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  would disown sophomore college me for this. But I promise you, 9ams in ... , which I filled out. I wasn’t sure if anything would come in the mail, but ... their camera, though considering how much I don’t turn it on, it would be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... don’t know if I would get in this year. Every year, the applicant ... Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and ... background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my ... I would know- unfortunately, in high school I could rattle off a long

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  much better. (In fact, I liked the idea so much that I ordered a custom ... -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... , I thought that was the coolest thing that you could do with 3D

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... Facebook presence, or is it A-OK? In any case, I would recommend that ... yours visit our website, they would not see your profile picture. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• 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