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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  was, so I can't quite give myself 100% on this. Sidequest 2: Get my ... 60 free t-shirts – ~50% complete. This is a wild and probably incorrect estimate, but honestly, I'm sort of over the free t-shirt craze. This is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  , a lot of it was due to having a more outgoing personality. But it wasn’t ... have to leave your room and do things (I know, shocker) but it doesn’t ... , and actually didn’t know anyone in House 4 of New House. I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but ... warranties don't cover drops, spills, stealings. Check the computer protection ... laptop if they can't fix your old one. But software warranties that cover

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... thoughts about making friends at college. Don't It was sometime in the middle ... , words - comfort. When I don't have the energy to monitor what I say or do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  . That was one of my biggest questions about MIT, it didn't seem to be ... , realistically, don't eat that much food. You essentially have to eat in the dining ... not eating in your own home, surrounded by people you don't know

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  at his fraternity. Snively didn't join a fraternity, and lives at his ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... goes. First off, I don't know when the dorms/fraternity debate became so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  , Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... didn't design its interview to quiz you and reveal the shortcomings in ... /her experience there. There's no way to fail (see point 7), and you don't lose

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  15 years, and honestly haven't looked back - even when I went home and tried to use my old desktop. Dedicated doesn't mean I didn't enjoy my fair ... , just because Windows Vista LOOKS Mac-ish, doesn't mean it IS Mac-ish. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Lindsay wrote: "I didn't realize that we could send January scores, so I wasn't planning on taking the SAT on January 28th. After seeing that we ... October and got my result via snail mail early December. However, they don't

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  , including an int'l olympiad medal)." Don't worry about the writing, and your ... some extent, so you can't really divide them up so cleanly. Your above ... won't be in place until 2006 at the earliest. "Also I know you stated

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the ... nights when I didn't know a single face in the dining hall. I remember every single moment that I felt like I didn't belong or that I simply wasn't

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  habit hasn’t died, but really it was a decision; I came in determined that ... reading books I don’t like has been somewhat of a challenge for me, because ... no taste anyway, and ample time. It hasn’t returned good results

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as ... of everything im doing that i don't have time to really stop and ... very well for many years to come. it wasn't particularly "novel" but

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... , activities involving precision didn’t come naturally to me. The cookies I baked ... – qualities I most certainly didn’t see in myself. I knew I didn’t fit the mold

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and ... cutting my hair for me after it had gotten particularly wild who didn't make ... a reader who doesn't currently attend MIT. Feel free to leave

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  intelligence” everyone was raving about. Yes, I didn’t want to study neuroscience (6-4 wasn’t around yet), and AI wasn’t much more than a buzzword to me ... at the time, and I was sure I wouldn’t be like that. How dramatically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... to. The 'perfect applicant' doesn't exist, and the college application process itself definitely isn't perfect. You might have felt discouraged

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or ... one, wanting so bad to have some hyper-romanticized, tortured-artist, "I-did-it-because-I-can't ... get a stronger and stronger feeling that this isn't it for me, that

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  resounding endorsement. Saying I’m “from Hawaii” isn’t an entirely true ... care too much about where I was from. It just wasn’t a big part of my ... was “… I don’t think I have any hobbies? Crap! I don't have any hobbies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... get a free Arduino, toolbox filled with tools, MakerLodge T-shirt, and ... included in the program, but they just wouldn’t receive the free stuff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023