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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... to walking/overall directions, bought some snacks, and we agreed on a ... were on, crossed the tracks, and then got onto a trolley headed back to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... that pointed to four places on campus. After a zigzag through the ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on ... not who he is. His pivot and return to Fire Nation launches him on a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... year, I applied to a (now non-existent) summer camp at MIT on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  bravado the dorm likes to put on for fun when we act as a unit: you'll see ... friends and I set up a website and sent an email to the student and alumni ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a resurgence of negative feelings. I spiraled quickly, posting on my ... the plumber ordered the wrong part and has to order a new one Again Even ... . Especially when that person is you. All these posts lie on a road that lead to

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

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

  

  would hate to waste a minute not working on puzzles with all the great ... longer on a couch, to a hurried message from Julia asking us to look over ... to start working on the Hunt. It was a lot of information, and the

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

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  should listen to the Nintendo a la Cziffra verson on youtube. Danny B ... , powers down after a quick “До свидания!” He turns to you and speaks: “Вы ... do you have so many new emails? The emails are due to a dorm email

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  me since I left consulting and moved on to a fast-growing furniture ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... I could ever fail a test, accidentally set myself on fire while trying

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  [annotation note="Leetcode is a website used to practice coding challenge ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on ... similar breakdown on Facebook of a girl who applied to 70+ companies and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... 't have a holistic process. Suppose that we wanted to build an application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of ... MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... want to get there by [annotation note="i like to be a little on the ... can cross the street and walk on the opposite side, just to get a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  embarking on that new chapter quickly passed sometime early the following day ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  strong and clear foundation and strengthened her drive to serve.   On a ... get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know ... after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020