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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I should know by now that people come and go, and that’s just the natural ... . Everyone’s path is different and trying to recreate and mimic someone else’s

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  , table, etc. But because it’s water-based, everything is easy to wash off ... accounting for my situation. Here’s what I failed to consider: I bought faux ... with practice I can get better. What’s a lot harder and intimidating is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  , eventually. Ultimately, I took this class because I know quite well that 5s on ... hardest class, skipping foundational stuff, and mostly it’s worked out ... than I did in August, so that’s something. Chemistry We re-learned all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  creating my schedule pretty much the moment this year’s events leaked ... figure out which events we all had in common (lol yeah we went OFF)Here’s a ... Bolly and Boba with Mirchi, MIT’s amazing Bollywood fusion dance team

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  shio: it’s their most well-known dish and is flavored with just salt on ... later. but it’s not too acute, nor is it too salty, even though its name is salt ramen. i think that’s the magic tonkotsu, of using bone in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  allowed to paint their walls, however - there’s an origin story that’s been ... story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told ... , it reminds me of Tetazoo’s traditions like “pancakes,” or making baked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  more accessible, they will improve everyone’s educational experience ... Professor Sachs could talk to all the instructors of MIT’s General Institute ... Content OpenCourseWare is one of MIT’s most famous resources, used by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  '17's house and invited all the families. We also met up with two other ... . We drove down Isaac '17's neighborhood until we came across a suprise ... , forests, plains, deserts, and now swamps. We stayed at Arman '17's dad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and ... a hacker might need to prototype and develop their ideas: Raspberry Pi’s ... and down and across the top of the stag’s head and ears. 2:53 PM – A

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ISEF! #winning pic.twitter.com/gK4jS2D8iY — Society for Science (@Society4Science ... hall, saying hi to some of the admitted 2020s who were there and ... Engineering Fair in California Rishi S. '20, "A Novel Method of Reverse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  remains under your control is your essays. What’s important in an essay ... about your passions.” So you try to do exactly that. But it’s hard to go ... long it’s like a reflex and you no longer actively feel excited about it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  computer and more actually doing things (“things” being a very broad term, it’s ... , namely Ring Dings or a different brand of Hostess Ding Dongs. Now it’s an ...  embarrassed. Nametag? While volunteering at the Seattle Children’s Hospital with my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  , I think it’s also important to say that there is absolutely nothing ... some much needed rest. Go home. Be with your family. Have some fun. It’s ... Connections which is MIT’s alumni association website, via which students can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  . Well, Sang’s Canadian now. But he grew up and went to university in South ... worked at TMK IPSCO’s R&D Center. It was really nice, and since we ... soccer game to watch the Dynamo’s play Washington DC. The Dynamo’s won in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay ... , class of 2011. Both of us are members of Sigma Kappa sorority and that’s ... . Anyway, here are Sabah’s epic summer experiences! “Some of my fondest memories

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  vary year to year, and to be perfectly honest, 2013's admit rate could be less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... Mississippi, using a kind stranger’s mobile after the call box stole his change

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  bus onto MIT’s campus, I looked around hoping to spot someone I "know ... favorite part about the welcome was definitely the MIT Logarhythms, MIT’s all ... the process. That’s ok though because otherwise I wouldn’t have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  my friend Amee S. '25: Strawberry French Toast Cereal Ingredients ... below (also suggested by Amee S. '25): Dunkin' At Home Ingredients ... post, Amee S. '25 suggested yet another... recipe(?) to include. It's so

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions ... 2010s cypherpunk movement, learning to program by contributing open ... million websites by launching Let’s Encrypt, finding a vulnerability that

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

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  some Latin dances at CPW. He mentioned he was going to his club’s Casino ... Team’s team match event, where members of the ballroom dance team were ... new friend, a new community, or maybe I won’t. But that’s alright

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024