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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... sharks. Highly Self-Similar Sharks on a Plane? CJ, Matt: Sounds good to me ... didn't expect to get fifty classes, let alone a hundred and twenty! But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’ve only ever walked on this bridge to get to this Trader Joe’s. Otherwise ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  . However, before I commit to working on a new spacecraft, I need to think ... like to work on -- getting an orbiter to Venus is an interesting ... what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

   Massachusetts Avenue is on west campus, everything to the east of Ames Street is on east ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are ... P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job ... get to work on our own projects. Since I've only been to three sessions

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that you won't be surprised or shocked when you get here--you're on your ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... , but it really depends on who you're speaking with). Second, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but ... get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ’ll get placed on, etc. Optionality: Humans tend to value the act of ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own ... successful in college is learning how and when to rely on your support system

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you. Eat

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  anchor. In swim class I realized that floating on your back gets difficult ... when you're done; you also get some well-earned sleep, to be sure, but it ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project ... guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  free food is on campus so you get some variety and don't have to keep ... entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy ... 'm serious. 10. Take a weekend trip to NYC - Chinatown bus. $15. Gets you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011