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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature ... perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won ... max of $2400 a semester (Fall/Spring) or $7680 for summer More info on ... students who call out on behalf of the school to speak with alumni about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• 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…

  

  never a question of whether I would write it or not. The true update on my ... can be thankful for. Even on the darkest, saddest days of your life ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I ... yesterday; we ran out of bedding. Everyone on screen pauses, moves one or two ... 't healed any, almost as if it has as little grasp on the progression of time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... topics. 15. LOOK AT THE POSTERS ON THE WALLS OF EVERY CORRIDOR. N: I didn ... ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... looks like. The stuffed animals on top of the cabinet all have names. The ... ’s side of the room. Four. MIT was gracious enough to put all of us on a no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I ... .362: Kinetics of Enzyme Inhibition Course 6 [annotation note="I've read up on ... .001: Introduction to Geology 12.007: Geobiology: History of Life on Earth

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... with mints and cough drops just for you. Focus on the values of each ... , and I hope everyone has a fun last month of summer before we’re back on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  move on, don't drag them back down into an unhealthy state of sorrow and ... matter. Parents see a report card full of C's and die a little on the ... receiving end of "parenting" so I do know what's useful on our end and what

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... most generous of "chance me" scorers would only give me a 50% chance of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  class ring. Many of my friends carry $10 and $20 daily, while I get $5 on ... pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  finished class #2 I realized that I had stained an entire block of wood on ... free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... we all know what happened in March 😬 So all of that beautiful wood sat

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  limits of my mathematical patience. On several quizzes and exams, I ... break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the ... tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018