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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  summer residents at tEp. The first house dinner was an exciting blur of new ... got when I first arrived on campus. This was one of them. The sonic ... typically the first step in becoming an actual member of a fraternity. After

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  name of the demon is the first step in driving it out. To have people ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  things considered, I’m doing pretty good! I got my first dose of the COVID ... also remind myself of my previous moments of uncertainty and on the whole ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... classes, attend the first lectures, and choose which ones to drop. There isn ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ,120 were first-years. This means that there were nearly double the number of ... facilitating any kind of event. The first time was when Hahn and I got a bunch of ... part, a tiny portion of how the whole program worked, and I still don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... ’t completely true; some students only had two of the three. But, for some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of the physics department, which was precisely the opposite of what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  institution) is hard. There’s the first problem of figuring out exactly how I ... academically. Perhaps because of the fact that I could choose to devote my whole ... first-years will be the Class of 2031. Perhaps part of the reason MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , in the middle of my first internship after leaving MIT. I remember ... definitely the worst part of that whole memory. Rating: 1/10 Western Avenue ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges

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

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the ... which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... bit about ourselves. While we share many of the same values, our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  above) for the first time—super fun and tiring! There are a number of ... thought I would write this blog post about some of the ways my perspective has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  lasts for the whole week. I'm a big fan of a system like this not just for ... first notable thing you pass is a Montessori School (the first of many ... people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... get around to this coffee table that I'd first dreamed of more than a ... four study legs, made out of 4x4s, the classic EC loft pillar material. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  came to MIT, diversity was one of the first things I noticed. I remember ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016