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  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret ... need to study harder!” no longer makes sense: you need to re-evaluate how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... promised. I decided I wanted to make a sword. How better to combine dragons and swords than to make the hilt be a dragon?   [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  impossible, but I think it makes it a little harder to step back in, especially ... statement a hell of a lot easier (though it will), or because this will make ... *voluntary* thing that is totally unnecessary to living a happy, fulfilling

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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 ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... used to be a subject only juniors took. Course 20, today Biological ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... because you tried. Every year around this day, I try to make an encouraging ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good ... Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape ... , we can make it a purse instead!” *** Now I'll be off to enjoy my last ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... options were 1) submit a rebuttal to this conference, 2) withdraw from this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... done to trust your gut, especially when it tells you to make a choice you ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] click to enlarge[/caption] To make this plot, I used a ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... . I was scheduled to work that morning. I’m pretty sure I did a horrible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 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