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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  eloquent since honestly I don't really know how to explain it, but sometimes ... I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned ... interview with Anthony Padilla and he was talking about how grateful he was to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.         A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... '80s hair metal. ("Next year I'm going to college, and there we will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  because I didn't want to choose between the two of them because how could I ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  . now that i'm about to start that experience, i'm not sure how i feel ... seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was ... 's Thursday the 18th, so I'm going to take the time to submerge myself into ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  advantage of the windsurfing lessons, learning how to rig the sail and ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... Dragon Boat team and were introduced to the sport. We spent some time on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  teaches Course 6 students how to communicate and give effective ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  demonstrated how a layman could target and optimize ad campaigns to save millions ... be the most convenient location, had I not LEARNED HOW TO RIDE A BIKE ... new grad they’ve ever hired, so when I found out they were going to have

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  go here to see how I defined the station, what I liked ... first two seasons are on there, so I have to figure out how I'm going to ... more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  of times just to see how they were doing. They seemed to be getting ... plastic. How did this happen? 2.00b, Toy Product Design. I've blogged about ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus visits—the Eastern seaboard trip to hit the Ivies, the midwest trip to hit the Chicago and St Louis schools. Nothing really stood out to me until

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008