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  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the ... was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches ... broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about ... ). UROPs are super common and have a lot of resources behind them (hence, the ... questions/make casual fun of each other, and meet every other week in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  ensure that the central focus of the college search and application process ... 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

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir ... few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... main areas and the concepts that surround them: urban planning, political

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  feet. I had never snowboarded before and the last time I skiied was ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm ... from all the times I fell on my poor, poor bottom, and I'm pretty sure

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  , we both were captains of the math team and quiz bowl teams and presidents of the Japanese Club; we took the same classes and had the same teachers and guidance counselor. The impressions most people had of me were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... point is the thesis of "hookups", which occur on a spectrum. First, the ... interested in me, and made all the first moves and invited me to hang out with

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to ... in college. My excuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital ... , and be inspired. Grow. Laugh. Learn. Love. Welcome to some of the best

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... that, I had tested out of the freshman calculus and physics classes ... equations and start with the advanced version of the physics 2 class we have

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... : And speaking of dancing, the weekend before our prom was MIT Dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  first time. You are now a freshman in college and as the oldest of the ... monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good ... , dapped up my brother, and walked out. Dapping is the unspoken form of our

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022 ... /systemic limitations and societal pushbacks. The lack of sparkly tourist attractions or ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  the very first day of school, sitting somewhere in the top left and ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... saw regularly for the rest of the semester, and into IAP. Externally ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... helping better predict the impact and trend of climate disasters My other ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us ... 's writing, she uses a lot of adjectives . . . etc etc) and got more onto the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... Reddit. Here are two of my favorite. The more and more I designed and ... . And, of course, more South Park. I looked into importing the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• 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 ... things first - the "Pleasure" and the "Department" prompts are not really ... some of the courses here can be), and that's perfectly fine! So don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009