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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one ... crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... start going senile, you have the opportunity to make yourself "smarter

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  of time worrying about his career and ability to make art, and wonders ... tools to make my vision a reality.  It wasn’t until this past January when ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals and I by heavy machinery and segfaults. (Although we try our best to ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... 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

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

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... well as other regular attendees by cornering people to ask follow ... were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  ), and it was amazing to be constantly surrounded by people who were driven ... , and hopefully I'll use it to make it a little better. Ironically, it ... 't make it easier to process when it comes too soon and too unjustly. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  air. Robert Vunabandi '20 thinks so, too. To make time for books, I ... The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  can curry favor by having all the expansions for Race to the Galaxy. You ... make everyone's favorite impossible-to-eat food, ice planets! 20 ... this event; come learn to make armor worthy of the thirteenth century

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... didn’t think about how my grade was being affected by it; to be frank, I ... wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... throughout the night to make sure that everything was fine. There are emergency ... hard to come by these days. So I decided to follow a religion, the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was ... like this: By this point, it was around 2am. I tapped out to finish

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• 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 ... in ten-minute-long songs by Opeth to annoy me sometimes, which I ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Kornbluth, and it makes me excited to see our president taking the initiative ... maybe you will make sure to catch her next acapella performance. Thanks ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be - more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... commands one by one via an arduino, but when we tried to send commands from ... jumbled, causing the motors to zig-zag, or jump, or simply make grinding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  week to working 40 hours; while during term I'm actually limited by the ... . :) By the way, according to Cox News, Dr Jackie Ying, who became a full ... vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  offhand comment I gave. Malingap is people making an effort to remember my ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , meant everything to me. *by “saying those words” I obviously mean ... contribute to making LGBTQ+ (and generally diverse) content that will ... ­­­ave ever been to creating impactful content by writing about LG B T

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  . And by age thirty, we would make six-figures annually; we would have a ... make it into a career. I thought I wanted to go into finance, because I ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019