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• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  meets strict nutritional guidelines for sodium and sugar established in ... provides for MIT students, whether they live in a cook-for-yourself community, off-campus in an FSILG or independent housing, or even if they just want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  professors included in the new exhibit for comment, and recieved the following ... criticizes MIT, it does so in a thoughtful, positive way, ending with an ... Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the ... ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS ... (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Add an egg on top for protein, and you're done. F(V, G, S) = H2(S1(V1 ... dumping everything else in a pot and letting it simmer for at least 45 ... a can of your chosen legume, P1, and microwave for 3 minutes in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  of everyone...except for people in the front row. These people know the ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  were also in[annotation note="Math for Computer Science"]6 ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  more expensive than going off campus in exchange for the convenience of ... give you a towel card that you can trade in for a towel whenever you go ... people who have survived for significant periods of time living in Athena

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... AN EXPERT IN ANYTHING.) Things Elizabeth Learned From Attending Mark ... fair (or play at all) in an adult's world at the beginning. He didn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... the ground for an hour and then go home. At home, the first thing I did ... high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... .) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... by frame. I wrote the words I’d post with it in my head, an ever ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  less romantic than it sounds. For the first time in my life, I'm hundreds ... briefly lived our own summer coming-of-age movie in the space of an ... video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  aside an entire weekend in our schedule to focus on their construction ... the freshmen moved in for orientation week, we had them installing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024