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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  creatively titled School Year Edition of this guide that shall be written at a ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... not an expert by any means on any of these things. Whatever I have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... , from Harry Potter. Flattered, I tried to imagine that it was because of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this ... calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference ... school. But of course, not everything went perfectly no matter how much I ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  is kind of hard, especially in high school, because a lot of the time ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications ... of my last remaining graduate school applications. 15/01/2025 4 ... requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  … since I was a freshman in high school.” I’m a classic case of falling down ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as ... that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  . '23, who is a goddess of design, made each set look like a Spotify ... a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by us. the show has 14 dances, 12 of which are created in the few weeks

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

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European ... that pretty much everybody is bilingual. No, really. A lot of people just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  receiving a letter from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ... A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and ... school, but I never really started thinking about the habit until coming to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of ... -lovers). Since I've become a member of the MIT community, I've found the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  't actually come in contact with since my senior year of high school. I'm going ... MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012