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  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  acquired by Broadcom for $1.24 billion. The competition occurs three times a ... more need for a filter.   It's been a great experience so far, and ... working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... served in a tiny carton for lunch. Eating at Maseeh was like eating at a ... sure everything is in order. Our frat was holding a small barbecue for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went ... as grateful as I am for being where I’m at today, realizing how fast a ... with friends for food off campus, and another, I’ll be trying to rush a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king ... My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... EC fort site during build[/caption] Except, I'm not really a builder

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  intelligence, which means that I'm signing myself up for a ton of math. It ... Elementary discrete mathematics for science and engineering, with a focus on ... particularly loved it either. Math always felt more like a necessity than

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  one"]REX events.[/annotation] There was a different excitement for each ... dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... , where a lot of big Orientation and other events happen

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . Today, I am eighteen years old. I've been at MIT for a month. I don't know ... they are worth fighting for. The Answer Depends. This is a bit of a ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  ="'didn't receive a sufficient score to qualify for credit for 18.01'"]failed ... WESTERN MUSIC. IT IS SUPER COOL."]i was sad and hass-less for a couple of days.[/annotation] i am a f r a i d to cook for myself and realize that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  advice can also be rephrased as, “Don’t audition for an a capella group if ... cost of food to 1/25th of the meal plan charge (if you live in a cook-for ... here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  summer on jimjilbangs, and for visual reference, here's a photo from that ... affluent or grown-ups working in the real world, but for a student like me ... myself thinking... Dear jimjilbang, I respect you for being a time

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  but this to say: you have to try a burrito from Anna's. If you're up for it, it's a delicious experience for the mind, the mouth, and the wallet ... little shindig; I'm talking about a different 150th! That's right; this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  you design a pinball machine for a nursing home?" Kevin '11: "No! I designed an arcade machine for a hospital." D'oh! So close, yet so far. 11 ... time for a quick break, then go talk to prospective members of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... ourselves into a wing, they took us out for dinner, from pizza to Greek food. It's been a good week for my stomach. Frat rush also started today

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  started blogging for Admissions, I wrote a number of what were basically essays on subjects that I had been thinking about for a long time, and had ... students' lives are lived "underground". So I search for a middle ground

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in ... too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  international students.   I've been promising a post about international admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  HackMIT team designs merch for attendees. This year, hackers got a dark ... Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... I've never actively sought out fall leaves. It's still a bit early for ... footbridge to watch the crew teams for a while, and then crossed the river to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  minority myth (a topic I’m personally invested in). For and against ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... implementation of curriculum, addressing the needs of a diversity of students

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018