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• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  unspectacular). I stayed with a gracious friend in the East End (with whom I ... December – and 2010 – I was briefly back in the UK, now my second home, where ... interned in the city, I simply revisited the street where I lived and took in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• 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

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... ! The course has asynchronous materials in addition to the synchronous 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire ... overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... much done all the work so far. sometimes i wonder what my life would'

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• 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

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  upperclassmen battled the wind and rain on the way to dinner at Royal East. I had ... ) In conclusion, thanks to all of the prefrosh who I met for: -making me realize how lucky I am to be a blogger (apparently it will be the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• 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 / 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 / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos' conviction in the Philippines and then I would walk out and accept my fate ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  summer, I felt the need to hyper-optimize my time in ways that would be ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• 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 / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015