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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  thursdays, essays on sundays... and you will feel like every minute of every ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... any classroom. All-nighters are entirely overrated. For those of you ... fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... today. And that’s the end of it. I’ll see you all on the other side of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... houseplants and city lights on a frigid night of this very warm winter. Still ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• 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 ... of gold that most MIT students and alums wear on a finger; colloquial ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  unhappiness and burnout. On college admissions specifically: of course it's easy ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  successes, and I'm hardly any more or less deserving of praise or respect even ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... lesson numerous times. On top of that, I've felt as if my post

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... clear any personal belongings out of my space in 3-001 before the ... we were orchestrating some kind of heist—and like a mysterious oracle

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... in the wrong tower. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor ... of the riverbed. You tell them it’s because of residual pollution and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I ... of approaches on those tricky problems with me and sang the other parts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  any other team's, and that's because we spend a lot of effort on ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a ... exceptionally polished, with massive props and huge numbers of support staff

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  't healed any, almost as if it has as little grasp on the progression of time ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... , where multiple groups of different admissions staff and faculty members

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... think and what we share online, which eliminates a prolific use of Twitter

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016