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  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months in advance, here’s considerations on picking classes and schedules. This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of choosing between 8.022 and 8.02. so maybe i should drop 8.022 and work on blogs…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.⁠08 i mean...hopefully lol I’m genuinely really…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this format. Some of these went viral⁠22 if you know..you know and some remained fairly unread, but I *think*…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT’s history is a topic that’s become increasingly interesting to me over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I think this is mostly…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I’ve left my copy of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics back in Cambridge,⁠23 this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender. Like a lot. Please watch it before reading this. Past this point, I’m making the assumption that you’ve seen…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation or something Alan: Like any good scientific paper, we ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to attend something very cool: my very first academic conference! And also as of this week, I am officially…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  This past semester, I’ve been going through the grueling process that plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act together. Whether you’ve decided to try…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses listing 205 classes and why they loved…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• 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 little thing called dormspam-the-game, an MIT-wide competition with 452 different players across all of campus. This competition had…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window — of my car, of a…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it’s been a busy summer. But I didn’t want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative tale…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I’m living in Next House after a busy on-campus IAP,⁠122 Independent Activities Period,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19, and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Partitioning the Boston-Cambridge line, the Charles River passes alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to Boston…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful for: Resolving confusion about class policies.…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Last December, I wrote Two thousand students walk into MIT, a blog post about Splash. And this’ll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a similar program to Splash.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020