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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  call and see if I can talk with some of the students. Q: Oh, one more ... most important for me. I guess I can do that. Q: One thing that you ... your personal situation. D: Okay, I can do that Q: Perfect. D: So does

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... . And this past Wednesday should have been no different. I spent it at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  postdoctoral biology student. "Now I feel like I can mess with my chocolate a little more. I can just add more palmitic acid, and it will solidify a little more." Palmitic acid, she said, is just palm oil, which she can buy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  , though I can tell you it was the most fun I'd ever had playing sabar ... -y - maybe it's that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it's that we never take down our tree until about July - today I bring you photos and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  math and learn math and write websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  you see any errors, please let me know and I will fix it as best I can ... wind-buffeted stretch of road more times than I can count, some things ... anyone. In fact, I think sometimes impersonating a tuber can be a welcome

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was to figure out housing. I thought it would be easy, but seeing the huge variety of events at each dorm was completely overwhelming, so I started

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I ... Fluid Dynamics for this paper, which I can understand embarrassingly well ... rest I can only describe via hearsay, but you can extrapolate from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can ... admits and mailing the early action decisions as soon as we can. I'll keep ... could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  life tokens, and I collect as many as I can. P.S. I once convinced a ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  % student discount to good use on. We didn't end up buying anything, but I did ... . Anyway, Adam '10 (I hope no creepy stalkers to go after him without his ... until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  can't keep doing this. i can't keep doing this to myself. and gods ... you just can't. you actually can't. you can try but you can't. last ... some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  website, and you can tell they're serious because the text is red. Psh I ... with 100 dimples hemispherically embedded with radius 3mm, I can help you ... -tesselating backgrounds should stay non-tesselating. I don't know if you can read that tiny

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

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  . I can power through.” Spoiler alert: I was wrong. I didn't just power ... . And while I can’t fit six weeks of stories into one blog post, I can ... honest - I didn’t really buy it. I already had friends back home who have

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  fact, I'm going to buy Jonny's book right now ;) shameless plug and also ... I have so many things and so little space, but I'll try my best to communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  the like can easily be found here, but do yourself a favor and don't buy ... which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  end all, be all answer, but I can talk about my thought process to maybe ... customizable, I'm thinking we can have really fun colors or even released themed ... . I usually find product design questions really fun because you can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , I can blink and see the afterimage of ten more years unrolling in ... preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May, very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025