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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  placed near that first dorm. So why are all of the other dorms on the ... that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• 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

  

  it (I made it through the first few weeks off of free food because I ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the

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

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the ... Joshua, or that I have two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the things I like, if that will help. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  , and we talk about a whole bunch of interesting stuff. Some of the ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... .03 (Differential Equations) lectures except the first, went to no recitations other ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  PI (principal investigator, aka the head honcho of a lab), first author ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  the first few pages, and stopped when I reached blue ink. There was a ... name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  first part of the study, supposedly to measure their personal spatial ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... . We might get a subject prompt, a first line of inspiration, or the

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom ... rumination and pages of beginnings. My first time, this happened under a full ... stapling the pages of psets together with a precise corner shot. I love

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

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus, and everything ot the north of the railroad tracks near Vassar ... , which is 1, the first floor. A floor number of 0 is the basement. The ... has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  's you consider the implications of the hundreds of pages that you've just ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this ... across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in-Cambridge list are actually the courses (Tripos) I took, which consist of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game ... games. Thanks to the soccer alumni, who were one of the first to hug the ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019