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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... on the East Campus courtyard. The hallways were filled with boxes ... looks like. The stuffed animals on top of the cabinet all have names. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• 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

  

  miss out on some incredible friendships. Do Dance Troupe at least once ... large vehicles on the right. Assume that cars don’t see you, and be an ... and keep walking. STUDENT LIFE Listen to firehose chats on WMBR. They

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... take on the role.   Ayomide in her Riri Williams outfit that we ... that we had a full team, Chris and I got started working on the actual

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  in the wrong tower. You walk down the stairs, and exit on the top floor ... leave yet. The poster on the bulletin board says ‘IHTFP.’ Every poster ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  on a Thursday, already an indication that it wildly exaggerates all ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT ... Admissions and am starting school again, more on that later.) This is just ... on GPA and extracurriculars than research experience (but it’s the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  't have your people. Sometimes, you’ll find your best living group on only ... videos on mitguidetoresidences.mit.edu Visit all dorms. Even if you ... day than I do—if you’re an athlete on just anyone on a high-calorie diet

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... reflect on and preserve cool recent experiences—makes me realize that my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... particularly strong impression on me. I was an avid, regular reader long before I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for ... dangerously close to my laptop. “Please don’t spill that on my laptop,” I said

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  limits of my mathematical patience. On several quizzes and exams, I ... break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of ... was mean or obnoxious. But she ends up being on my floor and my initial

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff ... getting divorced, your house burning down, your girlfriend cheating on you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or inline, on mobile; note that the desktop ... because of the cumulative benefits of diversity on the student body — and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... stories. Not so great for lying awake in the dark at 3am. My family on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... chapters and take on new responsibilities. A distinguished professor in my ... puts on his beginning-student hat and works through undergrad physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... make you smile on your worst days. 3) College isn't a magical place ... . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015