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

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto ... 2025s, here is some advice: you will survive this. You will have ... . I think it’s worked out for me; some of my favorite moments of MIT so

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

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

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... that I was getting rejected. That’s the truth. Last September, I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... freshman advisor: it’s this person’s job to help you. My advisor wrote a ... : you have to make them, in a sense. If there’s a particular department or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  now MIT Assistant Professor?  (P.S: Answering these questions was super ... . Recently, I’ve had one of my friends be my accountability buddy and that’s ... event of my life.  What’s one thing you’ve learned in the past month

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

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

  

  the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here’s ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It’s ... you interested in teaching for Splash? Learn anything What’s Splash? It’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  black screens were for, flanking the podium. The nearest we could figure

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  to come together and cook food together, the Assassin’s Guild would ... month! That’s incredible turnaround. Part of the firehose of CP✱ are, of ... haiku log It’s this pretty large Discord server, where all of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , don’t think I’ve ever felt so exhilarated or so exhausted. Let’s move, and let’s move fast. Go, do–I know I will.” 2015 Now staring down ... post a demarcation of a starting point. Let’s see where we are in a year.

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

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  -0. We ended our season with a record of 21-2-1, and we tied MIT soccer’s ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... . Maybe there’s a way to be optimistic about all this. After all, there is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3 ... day here, our group director (let’s call him Larry. He oversees my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self ... dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of ... summer I read former Yale professor William Deresiewicz’s sharp rebuke of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... people had wpm’s over 100. Other people started beating me at SET. Other ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone’s

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Sometimes on mahogany walls. It’s not diverse, but still a bit impressive ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... Library, the second largest public library system in the U.S. (Disclaimer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  You might have read Kathleen’s earlier blog posts (one, two) about a ... surprised I ever found him given the low number of course 14s. I gave him my ... in either 14.30 or 14.05, and further in 14.19 our junior fall.  There’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  Pao, Pad Kraprow, etc. "]pakaprow.[/annotation]I love it so much that it’s ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... . It’s tough, but I like a challenge. [caption id="attachment_88968

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT’s ... these students’ stories and, through their experiences, affirm MIT’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there’s ... through. Then, it’s also important to look closely at the situation, figure ... over winter or summer break, rent a car with friends, and see what’s out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... . Or so I thought. Here's the progression of my todo list leading ... no idea what's going on at ETH and don't know any upperclassmen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... disagree, even though the directions are written on the box, but it’s

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016