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  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... . For about a couple of weeks I was sure I was a 2A-product design major ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Corp, making textile inventions like a faulty needle sensor for knitting ... develop a plan for a stair-climbing wheelchair. Blanco submitted a design in ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  listed in course 1 and course 11</a<, which provides for an ... undergraduate Course 11 majors). A lot of people don’t realize that civil ... ’m already looking for a job! Anyway, my classes are a lot of the reason I am

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another ... fraternity as they took a group of us pre-frosh out for some Chinese food (yes ... center to visit a certain open house that I was anxiously waiting for. Meet

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  found out, I literally screamed while jumping up and down for a good ... a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a ... news and puts me in a good mood, even though I'm studying physics right ... , meaning any host in 8.02 just completely ignored their prefrosh for the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  make for a good story, especially if it involves C4 or fertilizer, but ... containers, they're just not worth it! Don't think for a second that MIT doesn ... MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  streaming. It's been around for a while (I've actually been using it since its ... for a long, long time (maybe since 2016 or 2017?) He's such a sweetheart ... ="86987" /] Meeting Steve was such an important meeting for me because I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  dangle a string for their cat to play with, Thorndike flexed his cats ... prostitution for pebbles when resources are scarce." "If you are a rapper, then ... raps the dopest and your memory the mostest." "For example, if you see a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always ... 'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... 't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  such documents (there is a time for this later). Do not worry about ... fee waivers for any student (foreign or domestic) who needs one. Using a ... fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My advice would be to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... the MIT Public Service Center. If you're looking for a job, definitely ... telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... ?" Kevin and Andreea agreed to take a selfie with me specifically for this ... become friends with them. Having a social support network is very important

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... , but if you can't be there, the award will be mailed to you.) So for those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  : Find a way that optimizes this situation for amount of time available ... that I did in high school. For example, taking a Japanese language class ... don’t want to treat it like a technical class; I don’t have time for 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  you yearn for a simpler time, a quieter time. A time when the internet ... that, please please fix it.) This does teach us a few important lessons ... text but apparently there is a low-res version for people with speeds

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... cat. PUF also has impressively large lungs for a relatively small cat ... This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”    For me, I ... , whether that be completing all my given tasks for a day or using the most

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  pass beneath it, I shudder. For years, I had admired it from a distant ... College Confidential for a sign that I had a chance. The college manuals ... will all crowd in the kitchen for waffles and a good time, and I cannot

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014