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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... international high-risk conflict zones from climate change effects after doing

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  Competition Y that comes after X Wow if I were international I’d never have ... ’t D, E, F. I have my own constraints and that’s all that I have to work

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  beginning, each blogger had his or her own install of MT, i.e. all the blogs ... ' Administrative Officer, we had the door repainted to say E.Jones2. Half of MIT ... been 2(E.Jones), so we had to invent a story about being superheroes

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Department, E23-189, 253-4481 • MIT Mental Health Service, E23-368, 253 ... -nighters weekly. 5) If you always fall asleep reading the text (i.e. not a Math/physics major), then work on problems to internalize the concepts 6) Make all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  internally inconsistent or erratic, at least for highly selective schools, is ... try to correct for ambiguities and inconsistencies, e.g. by having lots

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  that the news could also “boost my chances”. Excitedly, I sent an e ... Amsterdam for the International Math Olympiad 2012, I decided to check the ... -Madison did not offer aid to international students, and my parents would have

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  admissions blogs, which became my homepage until the semester I applied five

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  in modernist International Style/Swiss typography—undoubtedly a product ... College Board (C.E.E.B.) tests; the Scholastic Aptitude Test and three

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  surprised me. She approaches E&M vector calculus with the attitude of one ... E&M before, and a sort of triumph that that shit is done and over ... . I want to be a useful intern. I went to Orgo today and kinda zoned

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the ... about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... species we have previously glimpsed from Earth. Specimen 54686520556E

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  greater pleasures and I’m constantly in discovery mode. Please e-mail me ... , I got the following e-mail: It was my first technical A+ at MIT ... applied to Google. Several e-mails and three technical interviews later, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  couple of e-mails on my behalf to people he knew in his department, which ... that you won’t get a response to your e-mail (more on this later), you ... of her. I was out of that room like a shot. Anyway, I e-mailed her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  forward a couple of years. Here's what happened this time. An e-mail got ... 't just an e-mail. This was a special e-mail. This was an e-mail with an ... -bombing! That e-mail was subsequently e-mailed to the East Campus dorm list and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... speaking with my thermo-fluids professor and the MechE academic administrator

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  well as the bulletin board behind them (i.e. the orange textbook on the ... of governments and political behavior, even at an international level

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that an international student "did not understand U.S. dating culture ... classmates too, e.g. “John is taking Unified so they’ve been ghosting our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... semester abroad has been more than an international experience but has also ... International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... ): Now, I'm spending my third consecutive summer interning aboard and ... -profit company. I still haven't interned in a government job (a viable career

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  interned at last summer, working to systematize logic about markets to help ... understand economies at scale — i.e., exactly the kind of work I’d be doing at ... person at the hangout interned at the same company that I did; he turned

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021