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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  fit, but also for you to see if you might enjoy and get something out of ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for ... like idiots at Beast's persistent attempts to break the codebase by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  struggled with actually getting my code to work. By the time lab was over, I ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no ... me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get ... my love and appreciation for Avatar to another level because the ... movements are inspired by different martial arts styles. In addition to that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  text editor that is useful for editing code fast, and according to Bobby ... force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I ... dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... had fun writing these! Short pieces fast and easy and a great way to ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . (Warning: I’m about to wax philosophical for what will probably be several

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... getting used to this, still clamored for the safe familiarity of home—of my ... surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... to be asked for your resume, so you might as well make one now. That ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  for any engineer, especially since I get to break things (for SCIENCE. I ... live close to one another! And I get to make helicopters for a living. We ... of like working for a dating site. What is really cool is I get to meet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... earrings, then said goodbye to my family (I’d come home for New Year’s) and ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... biked to class in the morning, always surrounded by forest and mountains

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  intimidated by my judge's shirt to borrow her phone because I couldn't get mine ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016