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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious ... I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... inside a subway or a taxi. Some of the other admission staff have written ... Boulevard, is the place I first saw the joke, "if a seagull flies over the sea

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... fireplace fifty years down the line. As have many, I've adopted the mantra of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... directions. "the pen's the direction of the wind," said john. "knowing that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic ... vision of the perfect applicant. Sometimes students have wonderfully

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The ... plenty of agency in this realm, both in the timing of when you take each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year, in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1: The Media Lab has a lot of money This manifests itself in many ways

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views ... things first - the "Pleasure" and the "Department" prompts are not really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  dorm in the first place. (In other words, the denominator is the sum of ... A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  . Chris used it in the beginning of the year to schedule the first Blogger ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... ’ve lived in this room. many of the things in this room have been passed down from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  maybe the first time in your life, all of your peers will be as smart as ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... few days is one of your first big decisions. Some very intelligent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  first day, the two of them were already sitting together, and ... ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021