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• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... fact that you applied to these great schools says a lot about your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement ... (you kinda have to be a nerd here). Now is probably the best time to ... have to learn to work together and play together, and it makes for a one-of-a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  idea can't even remotely be attributed to me. If anything, it's just a testament to how often I get too lazy to pick out a real outfit and just ... 've taken a scissor to. [image_grid images="118541

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... ). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... campaign to feed and clothe the homeless. Even students on a budget are ... If you read my last post, I've had a pretty hard October. However

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I ... stretched and taped to the e. My final iteration superimposed a script ... 4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... out a ton of work so i can get my actual project closer to completion ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... called “The iCampus Student Prize”. This blue piece of paper stapled to a corkboard at knee height let me know about a competition to build some piece

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  memories spanning more than a year it's simply easier to introduce myself as ... all about it, work with a room full of creative geniuses to craft the ... amounts of sleep, trying to order a burrito at Anna's during the lunch rush

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... ) awhile back and brought a film," Smith said. "He appears to be a fan ... to be going so far away, but it's also pretty nice to be going to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... my laptop to reveal a queue of hundreds of applications. It’s about ... living room where a stately Bird of Paradise used to sit, that is now where

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  't have to have one. I will have a crusty white dog. So we're going around ... to do at least a ninth semester. Which kinda bites. It's not that ... The other day, I was in a meeting for Cru Worship team, and the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where ... we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a ... of career advice and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations related to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  't have to wait for a machine. A view from outside (it's distorted ... This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... inspiring other learners was welcome to participate. It was a hackathon of a ... went to Snipmap, a browser extension and desktop application for writing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to ... way out to the Boston Common. With such a plan in mind, I met Shuli ... over a mile from Next, so it took us a good half-hour or so to even get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  , first years have the option to stay in their dorm or move to a different ... Orientation event, Dear Future Me, in which all the freshmen write a letter to ... managed to do a lot of what I said in the letter. when you get this, i hope

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  't Have Shazam  This one's a real classic. I refuse to download Shazam (in ... . WHAT!?! This one has a lot to dissect. First, we have a Slack message ... speeches? Safe to say I probably got rejected from this UROP.   VIII. A

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... and I try to outline what a feminist approach to data science looks like ... it takes more than one gender to build a just and fair world.  How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... , but...guys. i used to be a semi-professional book blogger. i also had a ... beautiful collection, and i read maybe five to six books a week. things have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020