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  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  single now, as all East Campus residents get to live past freshman year ... skates, or hoverboard for an easy commute, and wait to get used to the ... of mine moved farther to get a better school-life separation, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on ... . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to ... helped me prove to myself that I was learning and getting smarter at MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... - how else do you get to the airport? lol. I'm too poor to take a taxi

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree ... recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  reflect it. Students get complimentary access to campus gyms, so it’s easier ... 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

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know ... Approach to Hilbert’s Third Problem” by David Benko, pages 665-76 of volume

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... continue that line across the street, you get to Building 46. Branching off ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and slammed it against the anvil to get the two pieces to separate ... . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• 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 ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  function of how far you want every dollar that you spend to go. To get my ... swim: Get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic.My classes ... ? Yes. But then I asked myself: could it get any worse? And I had to admit

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our ... . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  prestige or rank were never really factors; I just wanted to get to know all ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting ... get introduced to Andrew as well, whom I’ve heard of, and he’s surprised

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... getting ready to one day go to college, and suddenly COVID was supposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you just want to talk to someone, or get advice about healthy ... losing this person you've been getting to know. But it's better to have the ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a

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

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• 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 ... means I don't get to watch House when it airs every week, but this seminar

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

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  . We have speakers come and talk about different topics, and I get to ... you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get ... on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024