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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  - he had been asked by the observatory (through the University of ... My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying ... and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... more awesome people that spoke less of academia and were willing to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... sorts of time consuming stuff). So, without further delay -- Puzzle ... for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  step is having all of the academics lined up because MIT does not offer ... Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... thought I’d give you guys a glimpse into the life of a student-athlete here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class. After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm East Campus"]Tetazoo[/annotation] and a resident of [annotation note="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  while she saw it as an exchange where she offered moments of connection ...  One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... pretty tough. I went through a rough breakup. I felt like my circle of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... little bit of high school, I was an avid YouTube and Twitch enthusiast. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not out of not wanting to, but nothing manifested even if I got a few lines

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020