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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  websites over the years, some catering to niche interests and others more ... posting our writing. This causes the beyblade to tip over a bit, thus making ... sick to my stomach, I lumbered over to the bathroom, each step making my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  make enough money to fly home that semester and be with my family again ... to my professor about making up work. It was all a ploy that played ... “unrelenting standard,” making it more impossible to reach.[/caption] Model of

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad ... . It was surprisingly difficult, however, to collect my data from Google

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  days you have to walk around your campus wearing your lanyard, so maybe ... , he said. "A huge part of our culture is being able to find your niche ... 's an funny column called "How to Care for Your Prefrosh". Shenanigans

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... SEND YOUR FIRST-BORN OFF TO A LARGE CITY 1500 MILES AWAY? TO PUT HER ... the student bloggers out to lunch. (Recalling this memory still makes my

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• 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 ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... or academic issues forced your hand, well, that’s hard enough to admit ... , but temper your expectations. Sometimes it’s winning just to stay in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... yourself, and choosing to do things which you genuinely value will make your ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  : you climb up to the platform like you’re climbing up to a diving board ... with your own REX stories to add your own voice to the next Technology ... ”; and, most of all, Reif: “Keep your mind open to new possibilities, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... murmuring “but this is your dream” and you’re trying your best to ignore it ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... is near and dear to my heart. You're right, there isn't any particular ... article.) You're using one crazy party from over sixty years ago to justify

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  opportunity to actually work at a company that was building the sort of systems ... building to make Facebook better, and I realized that, in an alternate ... . That we can't evade or avoid these decisions; we can only try to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  and forget to ask your TA about. Maybe you keep one eye on the answer ... need to study harder!” no longer makes sense: you need to re-evaluate how ... 's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  make things a lot harder for others, who then have to pick up the slack ... summer camp is your ticket to meet the fellow high schoolers whose words ... ="although not in the contexts that we’re used to hearing it in."][/annotation] you’re

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’t want to make any decisions about the fall, whether it’s studying in the ... ignore it. you switch back to your editor, but your thoughts are elsewhere ... was lucky to make it out of my first year in mit relatively okay. and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your

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