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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant ... exciting. It's also just a great way to learn how to work on a large team and ... . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  old and cranky to have a comment on any of these things but numerology ... (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 / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to ... could go to a party and dance until two in the morning. Or we could go on ... 'll laugh at each other's reactions. We can hop on a Zoom call until two in

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  turn my audio on to say something, a red exclamation point pops up and ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... supposed to. (Hanging out with friends in my living group, going on road

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... the MIT Archives. A special thanks to the Archives staff! MIDDLE EAST

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... handed it the keys to a shiny new Australia (a far better place to dump our ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on ... obligation to educate ourselves on global issues and take a stand to be the ... video, I guess I went on a virtual tour at MIT (which we're back to doing

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  away, unwilling to try to understand a dish of something new. Eventually ... . I like to tack on a bitter melon soup as well. Sometimes, I make an ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house ... local coffeeshop in my hometown called mission coffee.    a few words on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  scientist discusses a theory on why tetrachromats (people with four color ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  sense of mysticism. Sudden rains on a sunny day happen when may kasal ng ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you ... from Signal Number 1 to Signal Number 5, which are based on the maximum

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... prompts based on the interviews we did. 1. Once upon a time, I thought I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... only got a 760 on the SAT I math and I don't have time to retake it and I ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  has issued a new statement shedding more light on last night's secret ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  you. It’s been a long time since MIT was something new to me; try and ... 's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... dish. A note on smoking meat: please open the windows, close the kitchen door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020