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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... soften on the asphalt if you stand around. You’re three hours past a ... ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump ... ’s so easy to just sit on my phone or get distracted; being around others ... reflect it. Students get complimentary access to campus gyms, so it’s easier

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -friends muscle, which you'll need to strengthen and rely on throughout your first ... easier to keep your momentum going than to try to get started partway ... Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... inevitably, after "YOU USED TO BE SO CUTE! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE??", roll ... 't necessarily have to be pre-professional, it's basically one of your first few

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me, you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... to other prefrosh. Everyone wants to meet new people just as much as

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to scribble here and there on my tumblr blog. But again, it was only ... to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... housing there during the week and return to their homes only on the weekends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... things. Thanks to everyone who supported me on this incredible journey

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , is like when you have 10 minutes before your parents come upstairs to check to see if you cleaned your room. MIT was repairing buildings ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I

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

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  tripping over a new on-campus job opportunity and falling on your face. And ... put on your resume, you get direct contact with professors, and you ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the ... (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video ... , scriptwriting, editing, etc. If you're going to tell a compelling story, you have

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... like a farce, like a four-year-long audition, and then we would go on to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019