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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not ... least a 100 point difference SAT-wise between my writing and CR scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  some ways, there's more camaraderie, because I'm closer with my roommates ... so I’m not done grading yet, and all my roommates are playing a board ... undergrads, and with an application that took me and my friends about 20

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the ... makes NO sense. I should be showing you a normal day in my life - not some ... life. So, here it is: a random Monday. Monday's aren't my busiest day of

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon be posting it to my blog thanks to my wireless Internet connection. I drove up the East Coast on Saturday morning (well ok, my parents drove

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  ="aligncenter" width="437"] cake my roommate and friend surprised me with![/caption] A ... opportunities."]IAP,[/annotation]I didn't. Simultaneously, my friends and I ... . I'm much more of a baker than a cook, and my friends also didn't have

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  couple things: not picking my clothes up off the floor (no roommate, no mom ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  summer, my roommate and I were place in a Marriott Residence Inn while we ... stayed so many nights, my roommate and I split the Marriott rewards points ... So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  being overloaded. Convinces my roommate to go grocery shopping with me ... in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My ... response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance ... days became less packed. My graph dampened into a steady state. [image

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

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  the Stata gym with my roommate, my legs hurt so much I was mentally ... . All I had was dread. My roommate always tells me I need to focus more ... Last week, I started lifting. Again.  During my last semester here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , my roommate's dad was in the entering class that was welcomed to MIT ... As promised in my last entry, it has been quite a week! Tuesday ... my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a

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

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Here's my previous video game posts: Incremental games Celeste ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my ... my guesses for the reason.  A mother’s cooking is and will always be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... ground. No major injuries either time, and one of the times it was my ... probably get annoyed about if most of my human friends did that, but with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... phenomenon--as Condry calls it, the "soul" of anime. This is one of my ... more about how targeted advertising is placed on my Facebook, or how

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no ... have something to stress over. And as much as I have kept my blog ... , and now we meet once a week while I show him all of my data and explains

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... !!!! So this video was one of my first times collecting glass, and not ... actually flattened the arms into wings, but like whatever I guess– he’s cute

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In either case, I always have my Taylor Swift playlist close by so I’m always ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  and following my instincts, I feel like I haven't even tapped into what ... introduced to the possibilities that pursuing art could give me.  Before my ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  = "one was for my friend Audrey"]hand.[/annotation] I felt like I'd landed ... go. It feels like a lot, the first few times. My hands were shaking ... my classmates needed to use the welding room, and the welder, with its

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022