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• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... ="everything except writing Haikyuu! fanfiction, that is"]high school hobbies ... fulfilled—at MIT, i only needed dance, but now just that isn't enough. i need

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  magnitude and speed at which their magnitude is clear. And in true MIT ... ever shows up on reuse... This is something MIT specific, but there's a ... Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  , exercising is honestly not nearly as high up as it probably should be (read: is ... miles. It is bordered left and right with lush green that is home to at least (we are convinced) 40 wild cats!! Beyond the right tree border is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  RAM, which is neat too. It’s also way lighter and feels nicer to carry ... 're not a tech person, right?" Arch, because the AUR is apparently the ... configuration is "the correct way to do things". After long self-reflection, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... my first year at MIT thinking that [annotation note ... cannot describe. 6. Modular furniture Each piece of Simmons furniture is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  could find on the Internet. The (not quite) final design is above--the current working design is a bit messy at the moment. The camera will be made ... IAP, I walked into the MIT Hobby Shop, design in hand, and absolutely no

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  very cold it is outside. Two shirts and a hoodie were overkill every ... needles down my throat. The path I run is full of stoplights, conveniently ... come. Everything is just a few days away. Until then, here are some of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi ... the Double Fifth Holiday. The fifth month is considered unlucky, so it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  of MIT if the rest of your application is stellar ... , a 2100 is definitely not going to keep you out of MIT if the rest of ... asking is if MIT will still seriously consider the rest of an application

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The sun is setting sooner and sooner. It's getting really cold, with the ... research statements. To be done [annotation note="absolute deadline is Dec. 1

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... (and that person was 4th) 💀 Music is also not my preferred medium of ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... . This was a pretty good whim. The second is a novel written by Gabriel ... muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... probably is my biggest lasting impact there. This also was the subject of one ... as much']MIT essays…)[/annotation]  The summer before my freshman year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  look back at the things you've done. When I started filling out my MIT ... well. I started filling out the MIT application the day it became ... posted online) so that I'd have plenty of time to just roll the essay

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No. How ... you admit from the waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We ... admitted. But remember, any statistic against you (or for you) is associative

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  Examkrackers MCAT books and various online practice exams. There’s not really ... , the concept of IAP is pretty amazing. It’s an entire month of freedom ... is money, and IAP is essentially like being handed a briefcase full of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  also keep a wait list of students. Is the wait list ranked? No. How ... you admit from the wait list this year? It is impossible to know. We ... not be admitted. But remember, any statistic against you (or for you) is

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  it. I've read things online saying that this is because we get small ... countless blogposts like this time and time again, from not feeling MIT enough ... godly figure shining down on me saying "Cami, computer science is for you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT community is. So many people were involved in this initiative: those who ... the experience of CPW virtually and under time constraints is so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... ton of Team Fortress 2. As much I hate talking like this is absolute ... 's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022