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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  for getting to see the view from the top. They ask for help, they ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... , to dealing with bad authority—both the principal and the new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  !”']prize[/annotation] for winning the Mystery Hunt is getting to write the next one. It's a ... , Lilly, and Petey for some CMS-related thoughts. Extra thanks to Mark, the CMS librarian, for the literature references. Thanks to Lumia and Paolo

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... [/annotation] while you get distracted by psets, you’ll still end up with a [annotation ... [annotation note="Defined by being able to elicit the strongest preference under

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... Cream to This (Death by Exercise) || VEDA #19 – focus groups, dancing, AXO ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... , East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

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

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

  

  's time for me to try something new occupationally. Recognizing slumps and ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  floorpi for a semester, before moving to Epsilon Theta, an [annotation note ... ="aligncenter" width="1504"] I intend to set the record for "most complicated graph in an ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ’s response to Austin. Sofia Campos: “Reaching for our dreams of our ... that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations doing that. It’s all of us, letting it get there. And so for me

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky ... I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• 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 ... ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS ... and the relative freedom (save for some FCC regulations) to do whatever

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

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... join a local weaving circle back home in California, to learn a new skill ... and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... , I've figured out how to configure everything optimally for me. Before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  all kinds of high-tech research, from paper-thin loudspeakers to new ... , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023