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• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That ... 'burbs at the base of a mountain. Or wild turkeys. Actually, I almost got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bringing my digicam to class for a “week” ft. 2.009 build challenge

  

  that I want to capture every aspect of my life at MIT, not just the ... Hi blog, I am an avid user of what kids these days are calling a ... part of the appeal is the nostalgia— the photos look like the ones you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 11, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'd show you my freshman year. I moved into one of the dorms at MIT thinking ... difficult math class at MIT), and a slew of other math courses. And to top it ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  time though, we ended up on the MBTA theme (at the strong behest of one ... participants each). Incomplete list of fun behind-the-scenes moments: At least two instances of the participants trying to scare the zombies (at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do ... , because part of it feels "useless"? Which is a common dilemma at a strongly ... "]realize[/annotation] that I am not foaming at the mouth at the idea of having a job, that if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  -so-prevalent commodification of time at the institute. As a student, time is wealth, time is ... . It’s a new class, so it’s kind of disorganized, but I’ve generally ... like, you know, processing things for at least a few of the 167 hours in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In ... left at the end of the day. As delicious and high quality as what you ... of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new ... hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT ... MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  of Cakes - Food Network (I think if I ever met Duff or anyone at Charm ... single episode of all of these shows (though you'd probably be surprised at ... , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  and adorable! Don’t be too creeped out if I try to hug you at the end of ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  of course grew bored and angered at physics after a couple hours, so I ... after the 8.01 exam. Quizlet dropped a beta version of their new game, so ... .   FINALS WEEK Monday - 8.01 I woke up at the ass-crack of dawn (8

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ="100345" /] Of course, we ended the day at Newbury Comics (because you know I can ... Jedi Old Republic. We chatted about the state of New Hampshire and the ... . One of my favorite high school memories was at the end of senior year

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really enjoy seeing changes over time and I think there's a lot of different ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  conclusions and new information at the end. Sometimes people put a powerful short sentence at the end of an essay or story to maximize its impact. Unfortunately this often backfires: a short sentence at the very end of an essay

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  be most useful to know before arriving at the scene of the crash?" Hmm ... Java packages that deal with Bluetooth. One of my good friends at ... info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008