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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  ) Boston's North End is famous for its Italian food - this is a sample from a ... spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a ... to determine if your kid is a good match for MIT. Your kid should be trying to determine which school is the best match for him/her. As a parent

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... /academics... but... I like being taught for $45,000 a year. Is the situation the same ... Lander rated a 6.7 out of 7 for teaching 7.012: Introductory Biology, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  —it was a chance to take our noses off the grindstone for an afternoon ... dinner for a cute restaurant we found on Yelp. The only problem was ... was at 9:00 p.m. on a Wednesday. We went for it. I have pretty much the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  I had a small (LEGAL!) drink. Thank you for all the birthday wishes ... there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the ... written for Frederick the Great, who CPE worked for. We listened to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  pastries. i'd die for a sticky bun"]Flour,[/annotation] [annotation note ... . It's open 24 hours a day, which is awfully convenient for students who ... Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... than normal cameras, which just calculate a color for each pixel and ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor ... 3pm. We then watched the Michigan football game for a bit, and then ... played that for a while -- sooo addicting. But at least you're exercising

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in ... Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this year I didn’t fully since I cook for myself with my dorm mates and it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... visit Ethiopia for about a month, so I couldn’t record her before the ... Making this video was a first for many things: using my camera for video

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  a game of time management.  For example, I was a perfectionist about ... workload.  Not yet, at least.  Pass/No Record first semester is a godsend for ... ", rather than "cure cancer" is a lot easier for me to work towards and agrees

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  whom are MIT students) come together for a week of pure camp fun – filled ... session is done. I was a counselor for Camp Kesem MIT during my freshman ... board for a year and a half now. I LOVE CAMP. Throughout the year, we hold

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  : a room furnished with a bed and intended primarily for sleeping ... child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a ... these things up to make way for a summer subletter, and I spent a week

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a ... had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a ... -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... dorms, the location of East Campus was a big draw for me. It seemed more ... physical place, to an unsurpassed degree - it's a more natural activity for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  verbalizing protocols for a state exam. It took me almost a year of watching ... for two weeks I fed myself in a couple of different ways this IAP. For ... I ate sardines for a whole day Right before Juno hit, I went to Star

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  committee members. Now, for people not familiar, MIT has had a tradition of ... for years to come, and can be a great conversation starter when talking ... ="126286" /] The Summer. Designing a class ring that's suitable for the likes of Tony

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... to make them float within a certain section of the column for about ... ? jenny: yep! i tried getting some, but i got blown up by a creeper for the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... during their free time. I saw a lot of familiar faces preparing for classes ... a full one (not realizing that the one I saved for myself was dry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  talking about navigating the transition from a small town to a big city for ... a fly-in program for rural and small-town high school juniors. Unlike ... going to be a high school junior for the 2025-2026 school year, watch our

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025