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  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . The Office of the First-Year maintains a list of these kinds of subjects ... should have (most of) the requirements memorized by the end of your first ... -ish lecture classes, you can show up to the first day of class even if you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Danielle Geathers, the first Black woman president of our Undergraduate ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a ... -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  first of its kind in the US. (2) A student who participates in research ... cousin to the Great Dome; sits above Lobby 7 Lobby 10 - First floor of ... week. Just look for our table on the first floor of the student center

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious ... I came to MIT, and I know I'm only on the first step of this path. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... inside a subway or a taxi. Some of the other admission staff have written ... Boulevard, is the place I first saw the joke, "if a seagull flies over the sea

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... fireplace fifty years down the line. As have many, I've adopted the mantra of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• 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 ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... directions. "the pen's the direction of the wind," said john. "knowing that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic ... vision of the perfect applicant. Sometimes students have wonderfully

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The ... plenty of agency in this realm, both in the timing of when you take each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year, in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1: The Media Lab has a lot of money This manifests itself in many ways

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015