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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  musical i ever saw, back in 2011, and so this really would be coming back ... highest priority in life right now, I haven’t been doing near as much reflecting as I usually do), and so many things have happened in life that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  special things that I would never get to do in America (you've already heard ... in training. In any case, I am rapidly expanding my musical knowledge ... [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... bit of butter. With this in mind, I set out to find a tortilleria or in the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... presumably the odds that I would have the same birthday as any random person is ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007