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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  to ongoing racial inequities and made pledges to make changes. The UA ... aims to make many restructurings to the UA and its foci, differing most ... from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . Balance = well-being. Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to ... drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... sick. Adding -ej- makes it to a place, malsanulejo, a place for sick ... be awkward to make students who didn’t know each other to demonstrate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes ... the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... meet in Cambridge had to make other plans. This year, Galactic decided to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , is like when you have 10 minutes before your parents come upstairs to check to see if you cleaned your room. MIT was repairing buildings ... my smartpen*. You see, the plan was to make a pencast of the address

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  a drone with your phone attached to it ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm ... cultural fit to find your best space. PRICING: MIT has three tiers of dorm ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  yourself to anyone means that you won't start to exercise your making ... &D, make your own sushi, paint canvases and people, and generally meet ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... conference and make minor changes to resubmit to another conference due in two

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... most important change while you're here. You're used to being right

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  make the world safer to live in. Learning to the best of your ability ... contribute to making LGBTQ+ (and generally diverse) content that will ... I want to make it happen before I become blogger cruft) that I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... finding your inner strength to move onwards. Move onwards from failing, from ... deal. What would the rest of your life look like if you chose to never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , not compared to what everyone else has done. But you're so passionate ... so far and that all your successes are really nothing to be proud of ... . Student journalists and bloggers like Lydia are working to make us more aware of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... recommendation are vital. It's a great idea to chat with your recommenders and

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific ... .html) to get advice and find alums at virtually every company or organization

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  have to take three lab courses that will make you cry. But if you're Chem ... professor wants you to take all your data and make 50 more spreadsheets out of ... major (Course 5), you're going to learn about molecules. What they look

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  the Harry Potter films to confuse your friends and relatives! If they ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a ... makes sense?), and is a great segue to my last procrastination tip, which

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014