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• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  the only place where it's socially acceptable for me to get food in my ... from MIT's campus (we had to take two separate MBTA lines to get there ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  share a lot of similar goals in getting the children to love learning ... away. In fact, he even began adding his own contributions to the project ... speaking to us in Creole. Marvin, who speaks French, asked him if he spoke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu ... to get all As at MIT, and I know people who have done it. Plus, there ... to CPW if you can! It played a huge role last year in my final decision

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that ... population but may not entirely apply to each individual in the sample size ... " entry - I just got confirmed to be in San Francisco this summer from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... normal year, would get to and from their classes. It's where you'd pass by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... . You have the opportunity to go out and get a college education at a school of your choosing. That's amazing. But please, don't get caught in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  're going to get an oral quiz over what you learned in high school physics ... want to help a new generation of students to get in. When you email, use ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... our food stops and border control in-between, it took us 15 hours to get ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... them, but in total, it comes out to something like 35-40, hence the ... day. I did go to like 5 countries in Europe over various trips

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  oh two two" Electric fields and charges: mystery Unknowable to me in ... impossible to clasp There's elegance in here; there's symmetry And solving problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... , and go to bed in the morning. At the start of the year, two friends came ... I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in ... before). I also get the chance to sing at my church (Pentecostal ... favorite times because I not only get to hear live music, but I get a chance

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering ... authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... , quick to laugh, impossible to anger, and radically human-centered in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk ... took me 700 words to get to the point…). You have a group of people who

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz ... and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  help in making MITAdmissions better. tl;dr: this summer, we're going to ... the move from our old site that Ben built back in 2006 to this, the site ... people, brought together by their interest in applying to MIT but with much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I ... ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  finally understood I had to get out of my neighborhood I got into one little ... in this forum? Absolutely not! I welcome all students to the table to ... story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  stamped envelope to send their recommendation in, provide them with one ... mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your ... applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008