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

  

  you're a great match to MIT, all the things I know you'll contribute to ... your dream of being at MIT didn't become my dream on some small level

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... the various opportunities and supports MIT has to offer. And there ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  . The summer after my freshman year at MIT, I wrote the following on ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the ... enjoyed math; it was what had drawn me to MIT. I found it similar to poetry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago ... , and then Tulane waitlisted her, and then MIT accepted her, but she was ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re:MIT ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land ... Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT, fondly nicknamed the MCube lab. I

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... MIT. Hence the Luncheon, and the Returning Student Group, and Returning ... you won’t hear about if you don’t leave MIT and return, one language

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... 'm not sure whether I was happier finding out I got into MIT or getting ... every aspect of my life, MIT related or not, and it's a tradition that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... "). Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. 85% of MIT undergraduates ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  opportunities you're given there. The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if

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

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

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to ... -campus from this point on, i'll mostly be referring to living in not mit

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  spent it wandering down the [annotation note="MIT's longest continuous ... is proof enough that MIT students have enough time in their lives to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained ... of warnings can be found at this link, and here are some of MIT VPR’s resources. All MIT freshman undergo a pretty thorough initial orientation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all ... coming in through my open window from the non-MIT dorm across the alleyway

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio ... alum involvement. Students, faculty, and other members of the MIT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... leaving everyone behind.  When I came to MIT, I quickly met lots of people ... of MIT. Bay Area. Private school. Dad’s credit card. What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  professor at MIT in 2001 while still in her 30s, shifted her work to Singapore ... sequence analyzers, is new and better than what is available at MIT". Do you ... MIT labs isn't owned by the school, it's paid for by research grants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we made it halfway through MIT, which is no small feat! Ring Premiere is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  [annotation note="So this class might have lowkey defined my entire MIT experience a ... "] What MIT online felt like (very approximate graph): I had some ... ="alignnone" width="5075"] What MIT feels like IRL: I have many more connections, with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston ... so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone ... work hard enough at it. I love crafts and making things. See MIT Mech ... my basement! AdMITs attending the virtual CPW this year will be the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020