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• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  gospel of SkyMall. Until then, I plan to start a business in manufacturing ... order of business: I can haz boarding pass? ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try ... good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... 2 hours of slack: it can be delayed by 2 hours without affecting ... 's 1 hour buffer. now Y has 3 hours of slack, because bob added buffer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  of high school, I had rewatched Season 1, but never bothered continuing ... 't until high school that I pulled my head out of my ass and realized I could ... of my middle school life. I can't really name the majority of the You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  's offered in terms of back stage work for freshman. Also, are students allowed ... -up. ------------------------------------- Prashant wrote: "I know there are many different international schooling systems that you guys have to consider...But among indian school systems (I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  school instead of any of those. In it I have cat whiskers on my face as a ... .e. a trial, etc.). IDHR also offers various support resources outside of ... -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  while she saw it as an exchange where she offered moments of connection ... Splendid Suns in high school, and I finished most of the book in one sitting ...  One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of ... sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here ... out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  watching out of my system over IAP, I’ll be able to focus more on school work ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at ... lunchtime to look for my friends. Most of the high school friends I knew who ... , none of the friends I had who were in high school. And then I hung out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  I wanted to go to grad school. The mask was just my way of ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... a committee of techX which runs a high school research mentorship ... day-to-day of school and extracurriculars. It's an easy thing to turn to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  . As school began, we were told that these new machines were part of the ... In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines with "Washlava," a laundry platform consisting of IoT-connected machines

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle school backpack, slipping them under the desk to friends during class. So ... delights of cookies, I realized how many idioms about cookies there are, if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of ... framing of these issues, their ethical and policy implications, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... packed full of sleeping bags, tents, and food. We were headed about 2 ... family maple sugar business, and another very beautiful lake. Then I slept

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019