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• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I ... would be inevitable if I dwelled too much on her story. In that moment ... classes are actually really interesting. I never thought I would enjoy 6

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different ... that here – i sure had some reckonings with my first year in college =D

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... need per recipe, I put them all in a Google Keep note Mealpacking Pack

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  community. Also Petey would never fire a blogger. I think."]I periodically thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  kitchen space than, well, buying a $200 pressure cooker and air fryer in one ... classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  that re-visit to make sure that MIT would make me happy if I got in and ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... writing class (which I would generally avoid with a 10 foot stick), it is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... scared I would lose after leaving MIT. Will teaching and traveling in ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  to have research experience. I have about two years of experience in ... very hard in my bio classes. Be flexible with your path. Yeah, I know ... taken on more classes and research and networking, I would be so burned

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  i would just get the pizzas who are confident in their vegetarian ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  gondola ride. I would recommend to anybody going to Venice in the near ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... every afternoon. Maybe they spray tourist pheremones too. I would. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but when the recruiting process began, I quickly fell in love with the idea

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  Hi everyone. I'm writing this entry from NYC, where I have Internet access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012