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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview ... besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising future you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... to start charging $17 per month for any non-MIT calls (I believe this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... for an app, I did practice technical interviews (though I didn't get any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more ... problem for three hours and gotten nowhere with it. There were so many ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting ... engineering school where people do / there's a good environment for startups

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... office for 3 months, and established our hardware engineering capability ... the world, Mosi Oa Tunya (Lozi for "the smoke that thunders", also known

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  never actually tried suicide, but has willed for unconsciousness for a ... patch of 3-in-1 oil that he used for model trains, hitting his head, and for twenty years after he was never the same. He dreams of attaining the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame ... time goes on- so even though there's plenty of room for improvement, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... college-ruled!) method for anyone else who suffers from Handwriting Deficit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the ... units above - isn't really the best idea. (Neither is doing 60 units ... from last term, where by some miracle I managed to get all three. For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  braids for the first time. Luckily, I got my hair done by another student ... hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it.  I went to Veggie Galaxy, a vegetarian restaurant on Mass Ave, for the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY ... . Shared. That. Enthusiasm. For. Ina. Garten. It was probably the first time

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... report that I got exactly what I was looking for. Amongst adjacent ... . For every bridge burned, there were some incredible, genuine connections

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... become easily automated by AI] is looking for jobs and skills that require ... best? Recently, I received a discount code to try an AI portrait

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  friendships to thrive on mutual compassion, trust, honesty; my best friend from ... value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... good or what one should automatically strive for, but that’s for a post

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him ... friends with, said that he “had a thing for Asians.” When I ignored him, he

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021