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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I’ve gone on since starting at MIT. I am nervous, but I am also very, very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... lot of tears and a lot of late nights and a lot of meeting friends on ... engineers and product managers who gave me insight on their life as a tech

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It ... photato,' based on my dad's phonetic spelling one year, which my sister and ... sister and I would provide very little help—we’d work on our schoolwork

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... on campus that you might recognize from Wakanda Forever

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  resembling the quote (like, did these people spend even two minutes on fact ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our ... that’s been on my mind the most lately is the pandemic — after getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... on Tuesday, we spent the first day driving along the Golden Circle, a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  entry by Elaine L. '18 This entry was originally published on Elaine's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on Monday, January 3rd. However, with the RA ... common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on ... -time questions. There are many answers already here on the site -- for example ... you can click "submit" on your application any time on January 1 or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  cat for a couple of minutes and just de-stress." On the third floor of ... Currently, the most emailed article on boston.com is this piece on ... video. Take a look... MIT students take on some furry roommates By

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design project which is due on Thursday (I actually still don't know what ... classes which are both due on Friday. Yes, the weeks before Spring Break ... basically help build Athena. They were called the Watchmakers, based on a book

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  still on campus, however, we do have two things to help us cope—✨the power ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of ... an H-Mart all within a thirty minute walk from the dorms. And even

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  everything that went down since last Monday.  Finals are still looming on the ... last minute. My black hole this week was 2.12: Introduction to Robotics ... other robot, which I worked on, had to help a person open a drawer and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting ... can use on the test. At around midnight, I realize I need to somehow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  Matt mentioned on the page had passed, oops =/), and from the standpoint ... hallways that connects Colby's dorms...) Thirty Proofs in Thirty Minutes (towards the end of the camp, the counselors try to do 30 distinct proofs on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product ... minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason is usually that the other water dispenser on my floor in the office is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  spend Valentine’s Day with somebody on the same wavelength? “Let’s meet ... relationship and I really want to focus on my classes this semester. I’m not ... Massachusetts Avenue and dorm row—maybe five minutes. The following morning, our

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email ... on my pre-registration. I only need to take three classes–biology, a ... my friend would tell me about another class on computational art that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023