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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that an international student "did not understand U.S. dating culture ... conservative family. I did not "date" at all in high school; it was more or less ... ”, multiple or frequent interactions. Storytime (don’t laugh at me please

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  at 11 every day, which means I usually skip breakfast: when lunch is ... at the food truck and the line is suuuper long. I'm a little nervous ... (it's at Maseeh, about an 8-10 minute walk away), and my phone is at 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy ... just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... to document things and ramble at a camera sometimes. I don't want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... ungestalt, like looking at all the pieces and not seeing how they fit together, like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I read the page once. I read it again. I changed my Facebook status. I told ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  and determined what [annotation note="Academics (or at least the ones i ... the page on that project, I bounced around a few new project ideas ... Arts at that point, I took on a publicity/social role on a whim.  This

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  'm working on? I looked at all my previous projects and started chucking them ... project I intentionally reflected on. I knew I disliked doing it. At the ... popular page on my site is titlegen, which I liked working on even less. 3

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  the first few pages, and stopped when I reached blue ink. There was a ... enough, on the second page, there it was: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian ... . I saw him the next day, at the weekly Physics Colloquium, and made a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the ... much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... pages long, 1.15-spaced. Part 1, written shortly after freshman fall, was

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P ... childhood was very international--friends and relatives living at our house ... when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , research etc) ?? I am an international applicant, and I will definitly be ... , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target ... from a gallon jug I filled up at gas stations. From there, the goal was ... disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... bloggers have already composed pages and pages on this topic during their darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... so far. I'm not good at transitions, and it's been a transition. At ... the kitchen, dangling my legs up at the ceiling like I used to when I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014