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• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... ] = Curry pizza Mixing foods from the same station can result in surprising

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one video generated from the prompt “Soccer players in purple celebrate as the ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I ... ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... 't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  mood has done a total 180 since then, so I feel I'm justified in talking ... school interviewing in biology gives some insight into the admissions ... ?) So if you come to MIT next year or in the next few years, your TA might

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old ... adequately. They filed all of them in one big blue folder, with no indication

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  decir "la noche madrileña." In other words, I'm totally settled in ... Telefónica in Madrid. Well, I got here last Saturday, so I've been living here for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone

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

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been ... opportunities specifically in DC, but more for a dedicated living space away from ... 13th, but in a funny sitcom-like manner, his house ended up flooding

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  from Zoom University in a little under 3 weeks. Legend has it, when I ... hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... note="amazing feature, would recommend"]multiple inboxes[/annotation] in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this ... 's Anonymous," which listed the following description in the IAP guide: "A ... well versed in Judaism, Eastern religions, and Christianity. Regardless

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on LinkedIn. My pageviews are down 80% from last week, when they peaked at an ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... learning about viruses and other types of infectious disease in 7 ... biology major, and the classes I've learned them in: 1. When you have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the

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

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  awesome science classes that MIT offers. How do people not majoring in the ... The fourth in a series... With a week until the May 1st postmark ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006