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  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It ... being hyperbole. So let me clear up a few misconceptions. And a totally

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and ... task, etc.; and after our first deadline two months ago caught us by

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other day when, instead, you can listen to freshmen who are less jaded and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT ... competition! Yes, that's right, MIT has a pistol team, and a good one at that ... , beating out Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and a slew of other teams. Geeks with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  with a problem, and solve it yourself. We'll be here if you need us!" It ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... !!! :-) Yes, the folks who read and evaluate international applications are very ... showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by ... between the end of the semester and the start of IAP. we use the entire ... and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  , jumping, and looking oh-so-adorable. [caption id="attachment_115256" align ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... design a circuit board. And that's where 2.679: Electromechanical Systems

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  note="Simmons Dining's quality really fell off a cliff this semester, and ... do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... out and eat at some actual restaurants near MIT. Plus, Simmons Dining

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a ... semesterly UROP evaluation form. And so, with the same regret I’ve felt the previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from ... I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the ... severely cracked. I pressed power and a half-centimeter-wide line lit up; the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I ... habits, and also to show frosh and prospective future frosh how free food culture can be [annotation note = "though y'all who experienced CPW and REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A ... concerned when I opened the rice bag one day and something came flying at me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... this past IAP. If you'd rather abandon structure and float through IAP ... unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... during which i highkey forgot what i was supposed to be talking about and

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... dressed, and collecting my books, an hour has passed. How did that take an ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!  

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... -catching, professional, and seem as if they were made by someone who isn't the person ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019