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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  less soggy shoes, battling a CPW-long downpour over and under rooftops ... . Visit every dorm. Talk to fellow incoming freshmen and talk to ... come to Meet the Bloggers so that you can meet us, the bloggers, and you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... little overboard and printed more than I needed. There were so many big ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... asked him a question about the physics department at MIT, and he directed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly ... everyday after school, spent all my money on art supplies, and absolutely ... ="which is as nerdy as it sounds"]Reading Olympics[/annotation]and even

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through

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

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  and offered their support and advice. On the afternoon I received the ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I ... , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the office, I've already eaten paella and tortilla española, and I know the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the ... here Saturday afternoon and was met at the airport by Mónica, who is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  being and took the hint, offering us lodging for the night on his couch at ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber Brkich. A friendly janitor directed us to the subway station and we took an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  great state of New Hampshire and unironically love fall colors, hiking ... "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... sketching, and even more watercoloring. In short, it was nothing I had hoped

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  my professor’s offer to have one-on-one office hours with him and a TA ... hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... , but no one ever talks about the details and issues and real problems you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full-time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from 9 other roommates and mailing out the rent checks, making the switch

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I ... playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• 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 / How to Food

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

  

  interviews, and then got offered the role. I think it was similar, if not a bit ... 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

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020