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

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ground for challenging other aspects of myself beyond my name - hobbies ... all the time - for real or under the guise of pset parties - exchanging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... the world works. Nothing can be done without consideration for politics

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... recently though, Dave was asking about possible storage solutions for his son ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  for our family line--the Dynasty Family--that captured my hope that our chapter would thrive and grow after we left it (and reign for 1000 years ... treasurer   The seniors of New House 4, where I lived for most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash ... hour wait, which was no problem for a group of excited young frosh like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... GPA are all accurate. (note: we don't get 0.3 or 0.7 for plusses and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... -winning programming language. I didn't know what TEAL stood for, exactly. (Wait, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024