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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  -recognized fraternities, sororities, or independent living groups (FSILGs) during their ... I don't think it's especially common or encouraged.) When freshmen ... the same building, or even the same room, for nearly all of their time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing ... my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  research experience or major math competition experience or etc. will pull me ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... or at least the USAMO or have won some science competition or another

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  admissions or read applications for a living (though I did ask someone who does ... or ask too many people (especially strangers) to read through your ... , and if you edit the essay into the ground you’ll lose that. This will

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  would have told you Simmons Dining (or maybe Maseeh Dining [annotation ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... bagel or something), but it was just okay. Punto Rojo (Dinner) To

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  for others to know us, we need to be vulnerable so others will do the same, we need to take the pains to understand so others will do the same, and we need to want to care so others will do the same. This is beyond

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... kitchen to ‘sing’ Happy Birthday. Why the quotes? That will soon become ... cakes. Usually, when you have a square or rectangular cake, it gets cut

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  starting. Credit: Caesar. Olay '09 and Will '11 leading the mötley cr ... subjects between songs. Credit: Will '11. We saw this face many times on many people that night. Meredith '12, Will '11, and Steve '12. My film

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... I was or what I wanted to do when I grew up. And let's just say this

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any dissolved carbon dioxide or when I need the tank to fill up, so I sometimes ... solving techniques while banging your heads against the problem sets, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  in life. Once you've achieved this goal, you figure, everything will be wonderful. Life will be good. I mean, you got into MIT, right? You've got it ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  . Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... at age 16 or 15. Younger students are not a huge population at most ... plain run out of opportunities. Some of these students' families will move

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  resources, like energy or life points. being a card game, cards are the most ... , i'm gonna use the time for personal projects or whatever. none of that ... 'll probably end up feeling the same anyway, or at least very similar. i think i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  generally dislike superhero movies, but because I know exactly what will ... dorm at MIT) will appear in a few scenes. There will be some car chase ... (because Chadwick Boseman died 🙁). Ironheart/Riri Williams will be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts ... ="Unless you'd like to burn yourself. Then use a triple crochet."]will make a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... semester started 1 week after my internship ended. Conclusion: My parents ... closed to everything except essential travel. (Which included "work or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  CPW looked something like this: 2.5 Bawls sodas 2 red bulls 1 Sobe energy drink 1 energy drink water thing 5 cups of coffee I slept 5 hours over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with laser cutters or ... in just how many maker spaces (or spaces for making) it houses! To try ... links to their cultures.    [carousel image1="76080" image2="76079" image

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  -smelling room is either: a room lacking any perceptible scent, or a room ... straightforward (tips 1-4). It's harder to nail the slight (emphasis on slight ... Side mall. I also like just walking there or walking to Newbury Street if the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019