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• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  /full when you need to borrow/return a bike respectively. MIT also has an ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to get rid of a stolen bike wouldn’t encourage someone to take their time

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me ... they seem like something I really want to sign up for.) It's a weird

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus visits—the Eastern seaboard trip to hit the Ivies, the midwest trip to hit the Chicago and St Louis schools. Nothing really stood out to me until

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... one box, so you can imagine that I have quite a lot of work to do over ... , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the size of the dent in ... to highlight just a few of MIT's cool environmental programs: The ... Initiative: "Planet Earth is a monument to the magnificent complexity that can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  to the counter and checked them onto the flight. I'm not a very ... , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  take a trip to Hasbro's world headquarters, conveniently located in ... . Hasbro is awesome, they care a lot about what they do, and it was fun to ... to be a member of the TIA (Toy Industry Association). I wasn't. The

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  was pitched to me as a "cute place with baklava pancakes that have a ... , which were both delicious. According to my sister and a few other East ... I've never had Uyghur cuisine, so this was a great restaurant to order

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to ... orange fading into blue. not having work to do after work was a blessing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... showed precocious signs of a furious ambition to eat everything ever ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... MIT is a part of the same world it is disrupting. Whether you want to or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... the moment demands of us The Executive Order on Friday appeared to me a ... measures in the Executive Order as a reasonable path to make the country

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form ... opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has occurred since
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... have had a great experience at any of the three I applied to. Your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to ... had to fulfill my familial duties. Sometimes life gives you a pair of ... falling is not a good way to learn how to skate. My famline tried to teach

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... to work harder. I am beginning to see a parallel between work and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... these systems; for instance, to stimulate thinking or to provide a variety ... critical thought to constitute almost all of a typical college essay. Our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  cooking as a method to anchor myself to reality, as an attempt to rebuild ... got a perfect score on whatever exam you have to take for dental school ... [/annotation] in the morning; picking a shirt, jacket, and tie to suit my mood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023