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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... 2024 to get to know BC since the Class of 2023 might be barred from ever ... able to get BC shirts! Here's the design: [caption id="attachment_53779

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• 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 ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... fencing practice and passing by the Building 34 lobby: in normal times, the ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I'm always intrigued by the similarities and differences in our experiences ... , however, I caught up with my cousins and by default that means going to bed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but ... conversations! The best way to learn about an organization is by asking members ... get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  biked to class in the morning, always surrounded by forest and mountains ... , 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

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

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the ... overwhelming. When you get to that point, you need the place that you can go to ...  Amazon link to get you started. The ability to see my Fixed mindset and take

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school ... get to touch the skills and knowledge that I spent 4 years cultivating ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current ... 'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  "heck, did I at least get the units right?" or use brute force to solve ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  so I could get the extensions I needed to finish my work. Mental Health ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... up the slopes to read a [annotation note="some favorites I read this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... 's go back to the drawing board here, and let's forego the simple drawing ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... MIT, and if you are able to get in from crafting “the perfect ... listening to Taylor Swift and burning strawberries into our guitar the night

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my ... to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  getting all my groceries here might bankrupt me, given the kind and quantity I consume. Another relatively recent addition to the Central Square ... that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021