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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... them. From sudden cold rushes at the thought that I’d only taken X number ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  'm modifying... Anyway, I can't really say much more, because where's the fun in ... 's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  /do at school. I try hard as an EC to be a strong advocate for each person ... me - gets to decide! I can't speak for the thousands? of ECs out there ... for me. Although I'd like to ask you to come with a few things to talk

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  very controversial among students, but I think it’s a big upgrade from ... like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... "] I have no idea where Bard got these dates from, but I'm pretty sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... -furnished kitchens, where you can cook your own food (which is cheaper than buying it ... Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  the like can easily be found here, but do yourself a favor and don't buy ... useful for their room. I'm not a subscriber to the whiteboard ... A couple people have asked about suggestions for useful items with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  curriculum doesn't work this way just for engineering classes. I can fondly ... smell one thing. Today I was booking a flight to London for Ling '07 and ... wired over. I thought about it for just a minute or two... so would it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  later for important things, like investing, buying a car or a house etc ... sweet stuff. Some of the stuff I've received for free include:A fridge A ... once saw a Cintiq Wacom Tablet, which goes for around $550 used. I also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  would be a good fit for my personality, goals and ambitions. I also ... been a learning experience for me, and I am better for having had that ... on trusted people around me for perspective I may not yet have has

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... , two people. I, too, had a roommate but she did not show up for the ... ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  -challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... trusted my intuition and hoped for the best. I made some wrong turns that ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally ... that same vein, I think the benefits can also be reaped from solo ... came with a trip where it'd just be me on my own two feet. I could do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... . Take it from me: for any school, simply being on campus is a great way to ... suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... and realized just how much I had changed in a year. For so many months ... high school, MIT was my dream girl. I had taken parts I’d seen from a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  renovated shortly before I came to MIT, where sound goes to die except for the ... to be a little more pricey. Coming from California, I'm a big fan of ... can Google them if you'd like to know more). I think a study published

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  've learned from you a lot. I want to thank you for being the epitome of what a ... stressed because I really can't imagine a world where we don't go to the same ... respect. A profound, deep respect for you and everything that you are. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer ... want to learn about Islam. I ask her for a lesson. We get drinks, snacks ... and whether anyone has died from exposure to radio waves*. I show them a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I ... -cancelling headphones that I'd gotten from a summer internship would not connect to my ... piece of hardware to play nice with it for a class project...or the time I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  just got back from a long, long, long trip across Italy which I will ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to ... in the front yard for hours at a time. But I got into MIT, so Sam's Mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need ... to MIT campus. I went there a few weeks ago and ended up buying a VHS ... cool and probably from 2002 when Simmons was built. I tried to get a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024