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• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of ... groupchats. disclaimer: this is from the first week of classes, meaning many ... , which I paid for. lunch: I was in the IDC and there were wraps on trays

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  . So. I think my plan for the spring semester is to try to keep these ... . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  , and now I work for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel (Moore's Law!! for all the Course 6ers out ... everyone in the entire office is reading thousands of applications and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I ... from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back ... 've decided that the entire process in selective schools' admissions is based on

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers ... logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :) For me, IAP is the best opportunity I have to go abroad. College is one of the most ... semester across an ocean when MIT already offers the best engineering classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  around it. But for me, coming from the deep south, this is a unique ... lined up for the next few months. The committee has been working for ... sure that everything about the last 150 years is represented. I got the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  of the foundational course 6 classes. MIT is hard, and for me, it ... know what to do with - is the sense of being overwhelmingly cared for and ... everybody for the New Year is this: take some time out of your academic

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  off the worse it is going to be for my mental health. it's asking for ... shoulder the responsibility of taking care of myself is just another marker ... yourself a little treat so you can get through the day" is a common phrase i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  "] ‎[/caption] The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber ... instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  was taking British Airways. I pretty much bummed around at the gate for ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit ... I’ve given tours for cathedrals and such. England is a lovely place

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  not for the lazy. So back to our hypothetical biology undergrad --> grad student --> postdoc in academia (for the sake of argument, let ... best part about being a professor is that you get to be last author on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame ... through. The good news is that I'm starting to understand more and more as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The ... -related activities for the sake of maintaining my biology interest, but I've realized ... reading kid, part of the science kid, but I am still learning, and that is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  Nicole R asked, "What is the policy for supplementary material when ... 2400/4.0s. For the students within our range, it is the qualitative and ... materials in the application. Is this true. "Another thing is that my life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  myself for doing the best I could. I also learned that HASS (Humanities ... is Archeology and the Human Experience, and it was so great!  The class ... and it was really interesting.  For the first half of the semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  suspicious. The email was an invitation to the White House for celebrating the ... stories. Some of my best laughs have happened while sitting in the back of a ... one big thing, which was the impetus for this leg of the trip, was to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up at MIT for grad school. Or you will ... the list is honestly endless ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... dreadfully long time. Here is a gif portraying the eternal and existential

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that ... about being abandoned, even if the only one you can really blame is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors ... , I found and did the things that interest me. For extracurriculars

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013