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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... for getting to see the view from the top. They ask for help, they ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  guaranteed to be safe. Moreover, if you get a MacBook Pro, you can have all the ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• 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

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , innate cleverness. I know that I did not get in by some fluke. The truth ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they like the opportunity to talk to current students. Some alumni don’t want

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

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

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  just get the library." Vincent Crabbe (Bella X. '25), to Neville: "Your ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in ... , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... decided to marathon the Lord of the Rings films (extended edition, of course ... my life. I have yet to regret that decision. The movie was incredible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... 's important from the beginning to become a familiar friendly face among the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work ... company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  by bursting into song; Davie said that he used to do the same. At 4 ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton ... Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  walk, when I run, bouncing, being blown by the wind. When I get my hair ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard

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

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

  

  ’s student government). After being selected by the committee, we each spoke to ... , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016