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  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  . 5 classes on your 1st semester, the hardest ones there are, will yield ... excellent treat. Like this one: “There were once two mathematicians in an asylum, and one of them was e^x. The other mathematician was angry at e

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  of Admissions, one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project ... Technology, the father of modern linguistics, and one of Time's "100 Most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... Boston, read one of my previous entries here The view from my sophomore

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  't necessarily have to be pre-professional, it's basically one of your first few ... life. This is one of the reasons it's such a difficult choice, but I ... than others it wasn't as if I was about to vote one off of the island

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... -250, one of MIT’s largest lecture halls. We emerged triumphant, carrying five ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern ... ) during my first week, I'm still not working on anything too exciting. One ... if or when you come to MIT. Although this seminar was the only one that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... that bridge in Norway!" and "If bears are the number one threat to America and Bill O'Reilly is 'Papa Bear,' does that mean HE'S the number one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  I can find one of my friends who can give intelligent advice on ... -top programs. You likely need above a 3.0 (although one of my favorite professors ... that may be six, since I'm still waiting on one. You do want to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who ... importantly, it does not rely any one individual for its success. Everyday I ... are the same ones you should seek out when deciding which college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  received an email telling me that the final exam grade for one of my other ... days, making sure I understood each concept, but it was still one of the ... just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... graduated today, helped interview me for my current job. During CPW, late one ... commencement, here's one insight that I would share with past, present, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... all common pressures, ones I’ve certainly felt. The issue is that a lot ... promotion, or a more fulfilling life for everyone who pursues one. Once more

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... building don’t branch off, room numbers typically increase in one direction ... , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  . If you have time for only one Yultide post, stop reading this and ... Book Lovers This is my sixth tourist-y post (previous ones were about ... specifically to blog about them, and that’s been one of my top 5 blogger perks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  season. One of my biggest lessons of 2015 (and 2014 and 2013 and 2012) is ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the hulled version, 5.5 cups water to one cup for the other, cooking til water

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up ... the in-ear ones, and I usually grab them when I’m going to be sitting ... something no one else can hear so everyone is uncomfortable. 3DS - The

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then ... realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both ... who get in vs. the ones who don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  You might have read Kathleen’s earlier blog posts (one, two) about a ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , messaging David, telling him I’m here. One. David arrives. We walk to the ... next few years of my life. In one of my favorite blog posts, I complain ... what I’m feeling is this quote from one of the lectures I went to during

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020