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  [LIVEBLOG] 2 Girl 1 HackMIT this joke would work better if we had three people on our team

  

  convinced [annotation note="she's a cs and math major at the University of ... first day of HackMIT! What is HackMIT? Well I'm so glad you asked! HackMIT is [annotation note="this is directly from their website btw"]one of

  • by Leya E. '30
  • September 19, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  supplemental portfolios may feel especially useful. We offer portfolios of the ... ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all around me, and I just have all of this freedom and nobody telling me that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  even extended me an offer to be part of their family. I also think it ... it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  food court of Lesley University. That means they don't have an exterior ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  before this conversation, but they both went to University of Nebraska ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I ... “ohmygodimgonnagetatummyachetomorrowwhydididothat” kind of thing. [caption id="attachment_103395" align ... particularly tasty bowl of pho.)[/caption] “I’d probably be a nine,” I replied

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... , many of you may be plagued with logistical travel and planning issues

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  . There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... feet pegboard, stretching away to the right of the Welcome Center entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... ourselves. The head lecturer, Andy MacInnis, had a lot of woodworking ... other topics, he brought in various experts: one of the TAs had worked in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Campus unless there’s a definitive offer of free stuff, so I normally ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... into the void of the interwebs…also shamelessly quoting ourselves in same post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006