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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... includes the housemasters' suite). As such, each floor has a pretty defined ... different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  a teenager. But since it’s been a while since anyone’s blogged about ... your opportunities, wherever you are. I’m not a grad admissions expert. This is purely from my POV as a recent grad school applicant. (I left

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Ethiopian-Eritrean Students Association, and a founding member of my sorority ... received a twin (Briana B. '17) rather than big or little, since we were ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random Hall 2013 graduates, who had their commencement under a Boston rain that was persistent into the summer and the following fall. It was bizarre a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high school, and although I made good friends, I always felt a bit isolated

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley ... closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... aphantasia became a popular concept. I'd just always assumed that when people ... could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself. Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory, observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to ... Housing Off Campus Finding housing can be a bit tricky. Luckily, there's a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  [caption id="attachment_55153" align="aligncenter" width="300"] a ... preference): Stay in a dorm on MIT's campus. Last summer, MIT opened only ... ) than the dorms. Rent a room in an MIT FSILG. Most off-campus FSILGs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the ... this mailing list? Because (*que suspense music*) … my advisor was a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021