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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that ... somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and that just by integrating into a floor culture, they can gain a lifelong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several ... ’ve frantically emailed the admissions office after realizing you made a horrible ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through campus windows. Every classroom exuded a dream glow. Every view overwhelmed ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• 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 ... East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

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

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  I hit him with a door. HIM: AAHH!! ME: OH! Oh. UH. SORRY. Sorry. I ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far. I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3.096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS ... hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a diverse group of students smiling and laughing while sitting on a perfectly sunlit lawn under a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... a good, healthy, well-functioning place. And I've found I benefit from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  posted this, because it really made me think. It's certainly a fair post, and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006