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• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  applicant asked, "when r u goin to answer the questions??" Sorry ... to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when ... understand some Hindi and Urdu (pakistani language) is quite similar to Hindi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... everything around me. My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... -o-clock hour encroaches. sewing shirts Est. time: 1 hour each Shoutout to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers to introduce! Staff and senior bloggers read our way through sixty ... bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... give a warm welcome to: Andi Q. '25 of South Africa, connoisseur of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... sitting around a table, roleplaying to a significant extent, and rolling a bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn ... allows faster cyclists to pass. Every major stoplight has a smaller set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three"]once.[/annotation] I was ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit. He goes back down to the plain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  's food opportunities. There are some great places I've come to find ... Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful Monday morning and stomped upstairs to Loop kitchen, I announced, "I want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the ... up my pride and start going to office hours/getting help :^) Isn't that funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here ... used volumes to scale up normal pie recipes. After we had our ingredients ... needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP ... mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of ... break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015