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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  you afterwards. They might also ask a friend to connect with you if they ... ’re uncomfortable with that, let them know right away (I got locked out of my own room ... attend some helpful academic or financial aid event, go for it. One of my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  . My friend and I buy the bulk of our lunch/dinner foods at Trader Joe ... , I lost too many opportunities to bond with friends and neighbors. Cook ... meals throughout the day; I got most of my calories in two giant portions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... really strongly about my S tier books so I'll say something about each of them. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro This is my favorite book I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  and not put my feet down. My friends worked at a pool, and I know that I ... out of the pool and my legs were literally shaking. Y’all, swimming is ... schedule.  My instructors were really chill. I had the Cross Country Coach

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  healthy foods and keep track of my calorie and vitamin and nutrient intake ... . They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head going "take vitamins!" (Hi mom.) As a part of my healthy eating craze, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  hundreds of people who had since became my classmates and my friends, and now ... watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My ... inconvenient truth about my internet access. Namely, there are only three ways I ... sustained flood damage at some point. Still, if there's one thing that my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... are on friends / minsan, about Eraserheads's "Minsan", and soulsearching ... rain. dear kuya is about Ebe Dancel's "Dear Kuya", and talks about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  experience I have had at MIT, if not in my life. It is hard both academically ... semester was going, and I said, in jest, that "my roommate and I have been ... compounding nature of falling apart. I try my best to get ahead at the beginning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  hosting my first panel! I was with my friend, Aidan (who, if you recall ... One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  this is a guest blog post from my dear friend aidan chambers '23 who ... some context before I begin my inane rambling. For anyone who doesn ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  . So, of course, my friend managed to persuade me to print some sheet ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well get my first 5.0 at MIT, because I'm not as good at slacking off as I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  , as the ungentle rain smashed into flooded streets and scoured my shoes ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You probably could have strung a jade necklace from the jadedness of my tonal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  . a bunch of my friends were in the class and collaborating with them ... . my friend Jonathan says there is always tomorrow. I don't believe that ... and because I had a lot on my plate. dropping a class definitely helped

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  /hoped MIT classes would be like before I applied. Several of my friends are ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... class. 6.S951 (Modern Mathematical Statistics) This class is my first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  thought, “[annotation note="One of my MIT friends from Brazil ... ="attachment_88380" align="aligncenter" width="768"] How it went down in my head ... comprehend how it was all orchestrated (pun intended). It all started in my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my film in the midst of trying to finish my other classes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  entertaining readings I’ve had from a class. So far my favorite one has been The ... so long. But I think my mindset changed after participating in the Reality Virtually Hackathon at the Media Lab over IAP. It was my first

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Public Library, authors gave talks and led storytimes. My friend and I got ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... 't stop reading for fun entirely. Not that my class readings haven’t been

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018