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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  home for spring break is the first breath of air I've had in a while ... that the "Sell By" date should be taken in a literal sense - "the milk ... following would have been a wonderous experience for both of us. It really is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  am super super afraid of bugs, and there is a bug currently in my room ... the financial aid award letter. In June 2019 I wrote a post about how I ... 's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit ... I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... information in a 3 hour test. It was a level of understanding that my high

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  pretty much become a Master Builder, LEGO-style, in the space of a single ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  other professions. It is a hazard in the same sense ride-sharing was a ... a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  class, my teacher, who is a professional costume designer in New York ... the other work in this class. Our final project is making a bird costume ... . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  't matter a bit in the end! You said how was MIT? You know -- MIT was a ... granted -- it's a joy to have so much free time dedicated to learning, and ... relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  guided by Innovation, Networking, and Knowledge), is a national science ... let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads Jennifer Sim and Di Ye have organized: Introducing a great opportunity for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  into office hours. I am 35th in the queue. To be fair, 6.009 is a hard ... into annoyance and dread. This is basically what happened with 18.01A and ... prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  in a cup; it is a daily ritual that brings together families and ... roots. In particular, pão de queijo, a gluten-free cheesy bread, has ... Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  dinner, read occasionally and made another door sign for our room. in a way ... walls are new as i walk in every night. it feels like the default. it is ... comfortable here, i can stay here. this is not a four-year long plane flight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  life is, in reality, itself intangible. {} planted in me a burning ... post is that regardless of how much effort you wind up putting into them ... ’d recommend looking back at your revision history. Not only is it a cringey

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

   http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... a photo of his dad in the news reports of the bombing but had heard ... . We've set up a recovery fund to ease some of that burden, and much of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  head around how my classmates and i can make so much money sitting in ... , specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... ridiculous amount of extraneous punctuation? Is it a cultural thing? In any ... all of a sudden you realize that everything is due in 4 days and you don

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... to action: “Is there any way you can send me a list of things I can ... advance minority standing at MIT. Keeping this in mind, how could we move

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  actual blog post content from a given page. And this is written in bbcode ... with a prompt that I wrote, which is in bold. Robo-CJ then completes the ... . You can always try: ---apt-get update, which is a free tool that sets

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of the free wireless service (not available in rooms, unfortunately). A ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... a very bright yellow bag tucked under the seat in front of him - it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  a free concert and take a break from the whirlwind that is CPW, you ... entry to looking ahead! Here, from your temporarily-a-sellout blogger, is ... to first check it out. MIT seems to be littered with free a cappella

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010