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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  wanted to talk about was finding a community where I was surrounded by ... orientation with a label (although neither one of us can get used to using “they ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -handed Uber drivers. Yep, I'm going to get a job. That's the conclusion. Egad ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.] ... times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the ... gets a letter inviting him to come for a tour of MIT. It's an exciting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... to take at least a few rest days a week, though, because that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of mine moved farther to get a better school-life separation, and ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• 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 ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021