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  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  . Oblivious of what this would result in, I decided to work for the rest of the ... in first place are dashed as I find that it would take much more to ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... 's me, in case you somehow didn't figure it out. I still have mud residue ... partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  that I would have the opportunity to partake in research at MIT was ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a ... Bank, where I held a brain in my hands and then watched a cutting. It was

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  lab sections, I would think to myself that I am too tired to be out in ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in ... each, sending them out to whoever I believed would give me honest

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... made some breadsticks rolled around in crushed corn flakes. I eat that ... it. I spend the rest of the afternoon working in the Stud before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  didn’t take me very long to figure out what my project would be. When I ... pepper them with questions – I take about 18 laps around the room in an ... ’ve gained, and the people we’ve become.  I know that freshman year Emi would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to check on him. There would be some bubbles. I would add flour and water ... didn't rise quite as much as I would have wanted). It was delicious! But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... shouldn’t I talk really loudly in the deep lounge at 2am” and “why shouldn ... two sections are generally true, in this post I want to talk about the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity athlete in high school (cross country and wrestling), but I had decided not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the ... that I'm only speaking of females in math/science/engineering. I suppose

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public ... around Boston in this outfit, so I borrow one person’s jeans and get a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... ://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-amazing-grilled-cheese-sandwich-recipes) would be a good life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  . This semester, having learned from my freshman year mistakes, I worked in ... was on point, no denying that. And I would soon learn that it wasn ... need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  entry, Mitra and I'll probably be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, preparing for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005