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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as ... questions in my DMs and asked publicly and on the IG live that I really wanted ... read and understand. I would give you all a big, big hug if I could. Dear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and ... lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  recently.   I came home from college having all these plans for how I would ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without ... improve myself so I wouldn’t look so pale in comparison to him. At first I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... History. In Chicago, I visited the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry. And finally, in Seattle, I visited Museum of Pop Culture

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting ... tell him it was for my blog, but I thought that would have been awkward

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new castle, Maseeh). Since it's the newest dorm on campus, I don't really think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... said: I think I would just die if I were you... No, really, just to stand ... stairs. Plus, the amusement park across the street (you can see it in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  desserts, [annotation note="a fried dough pastry I would soon come to love ... . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about ... care of sick students in my hall and at MIT in general, which I'm really ... lobster almost every night (which I didn't partake in, but I heard was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I ... about them, so I would like to point you to their Tumblr page about their ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  images out of text, I was pretty happy. So in the end, I would say this PCB ... minimum viable product (the bare bones criteria I would have to meet in ... II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  was my mother–who, every weekend, would go over what I did in the prep ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn ... . The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i ... searched for the Boston Globe article that i knew would have been written. i ... that i knew would have been written. i didn’t find it. so now i’m writing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... people understand each other." Sometimes I think the best ideas in the ... awesome. But I digress.) Tim was pretty fascinating, so I checked out his

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman ... attendance. In case it is confusing why I should care about this, I work in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014