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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... 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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Making the sauce: Bring some the stock to a ... . The Sauce Melt butter, stir in flour to make a brown roux. Add veal ... diced mushrooms to make a mushroom sauce. Add marinade from the sous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  joy, maybe connection. It's a feeling that makes you want to experience ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as ... people who aren't there. And yet, every time I pass by a room I know to be

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

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

  

  to U.S. News & World Report, which makes a habit of knowing these ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... Chris Peterson launched a project to highlight MIT's committment to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  community, she'll be able to make great friends, and above all, she's a great ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  applied to ten institutions in total, a period marked by significant ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... . This map originated from a poll taken last year by Casie Chen ‘17, who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  trusted MIT to make a good decision (though actually, I’d been almost ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all

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

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... they could make a supercomputer using nothing but soda cans, hairspray, 3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... doritos—but make peace with myself if there is a week or month where i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  a "now or never" deal: my parents had wanted to make this trip after ... responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... have to take the I-never-want-to-ever-take-this-again exam a.k.a. the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a ... have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... as the week went by. The afternoon he left, we sat and talked to each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to ... , with a C. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him ... issues, so you need to make sure she doesn't eat anything too fatty. Dog 1 ... , Dog 3 only wants to eat food that a human is holding even though she

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020