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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  the world really do become funny with a little time and distance ... helpful. Here goes...       Your friends will change a ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  feel at home. I'm trying to do more outings and have a bit of a group ... trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ."]cliffhangers.[/annotation] Have to do my homework *ugh*.[annotation note="I made a Facebook that ... SENT ME A [annotation note="Does MIT still do this? I'm not sure. But it ... time drawing and writing. Over the years, I stopped doing a lot of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

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

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  day than I do—if you’re an athlete on just anyone on a high-calorie diet ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that you know. How do you determine if someone is not interested in a ... want a serious relationship). Or, maybe you find that you do not want a ... relationships or hookups actually do care about you as a person--they may even

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you gather with a bunch of people who do similar research to yours and ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I ... -computer interaction (HCI)". Angsting over this research was a long and arduous process

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool ... winter without a winter coat. I’m doing better at this than I expected - a ... myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ’t feel like thinking about my workout, then I would let myself do a 30 min ... intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... I hit him with a door. HIM: AAHH!! ME: OH! Oh. UH. SORRY. Sorry. I ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn ... of classes, although I did do a few things   like teaching and ... . Genuinely care about the places you apply to, and if you do find that a

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  would be a lot more dull.” Do you have any nerdy interests? MIT is known ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing ... generation of students moving society forward with a can-do attitude. She says

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  it also meant we had to do a lot of interviews. Even though a lot of ... , which they inevitably do. The week leading up to the program was a lot of ... of HSSP doing non-HSSP things. Conveniently enough, we had a puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020