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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... rehearse for the musical, because no one would be able to hear me) and phoned ... door. Me: Err...hi. Sorry to barge in like this. Josh Winn: No problem

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  college—every connection you make, no matter how brief, will leave a mark ... no, those are not just hook-up apps (Bumble especially is pretty classy). Online dating apps are a great way to expand your social circle beyond the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  to size up your competitors. As long as you steer carefully, Pass/No ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... - you'll have to figure out what works for you. (helpful hint: you no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find ... Pi Chi Phi DKE - Delta Kappa Epsilon Delts (DTD) - Delta Tau Delta No ... distributed to incoming freshmen each year at no charge. (Shameless plug: Class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  : I read something online that said, “There are 30,000 days in your life”....That night, I realized there are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset ... better in physical world classes over online classes), and I hear that this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the ... —as contrasted with the subject matter of that experience. It is clear that no single style of education and no small set of alternative styles is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  so drunk that no hotel in New York would accept him, and he ended up in ... the end, I was going to be dissatisfied no matter which option I pick ... identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  social center of student life. No need is more urgently felt amongst the ... -located housing, students would end up interacting, an activity which would no ... the pages of The Tech: the op-ed wrote of how men “that have no control

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  no electronics experience going in (which you can probably tell from ... , since I’m no longer consistently making posters for LSC. Instead, when ... already purchased five 2025 ones from artists i follow online

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  occasionally in between. There were practice problems online, which I spent one ... couldn’t I do it then? There’s no way of telling. But, most of all, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and ... roommate and b) you can say no if they try to buy anything really heinous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  want to explicitly recognize why these decisions are difficult. No one ... features: There are so many lists online about things to consider for college ... office supplies. There is no intrinsic basis for comparison

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during ... nESCUFFYxtcomm"]nREXtcomm,[/annotation]no frosh in residences essentially means no REX. That's just the tip of the iceberg though. It also

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... levels. The exact gripes no longer apply, but the camaraderie certainly ... a trend? Well, no, not just that. Turns out that absolutely nothing

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  there was clearly no way I’d make it back to Nigeria in time. I spoke to ... -Madison, reading up its online newspapers, poring over CC threads, I realized an ... moment that told me in no uncertain terms that things were fine. Things

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life ... 1865. They're all available online, and they're an incredible source of ... Boston to take the exam and have no guarantee of admission? The exams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  had no coding experience in Python or C++, aside from the three week ... wrong. I looked up a tutorial online that did something similar to what we ... loop of the code for the ESP32. If there is no input query, the server

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... online hunts such as teammate or Silph have cropped up, with a huge growth ... , and that would be fun. Final thoughts Monday: Wrapup I wake up, no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... , Aristotle argues that no ethical theory can provide a rule-based decision ... depends on no external goods, and serves no end other than goodness itself

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  to that question is “something that is no longer worth my time,” a fuel ... learn with online platforms Consult scientists on communication ... than the SAT), and an essay-writing section No one gives a rat’s ass

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018