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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... transmitter (among other things), and all was right with the world. Of the student groups on campus, WMBR has one of the largest direct community and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  separation (noun): The notion of intertwined spacelike and timelike dimensions ... blog post and get an additional 20% discount off the low, low price of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder. You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... first of its kind in the US. (2) A student who participates in research ... classroom, in the lab, and outside of class). wanking (v.) - self

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . However, our team of Mechanical Engineers and I had the opportunity to ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... you sail against the direction of the wind?" joseph, claire and i sat ... extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and

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

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

  

  should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... and destroying future selves, all of the time, with everything we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... , or the average of your GPA in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and ... naivety. I fully stand by what I have written, and some of the arguments I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  hunt happened in the first quarter of 2014. After a rejection and a few ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... important stories, about MIT and about planning our futures. The first is Drop

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  , and get far. But an undergraduate education is only the first step ... school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: a Harry Potter fanfiction

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... of the most talented and intelligent students alive, and among them are ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them ... been full of hellos. I've met so many first/second/third cousins and great aunts and uncles for the first time in recallable memory. It's an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... online video. Elizabeth and I share a lot of the same values when it comes ... evolved (after several iterations and a lot of feedback from part of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  GIR, and, of course, the overall decision to pursue an MIT education in ... requirement later down the road. There are a lot of good classes at MIT, and it ... The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto

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

  finding place

  

  spring. The people I interacted with became a small group of friends and ... fall. But I still feel the wonder of this place. I know myself and where ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  questions, and this by no means that the Nobel laureate/pioneer of programmed ... free to add a section as your schedule and the size of that section ... well-versed in the format and intricacies of the material. At the same

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

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

  

  places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression ... , and I’m not the only one who thinks that—almost all of the students I ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011