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

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... 's been teaching for over fifty years. And then I fell down the rabbit hole ... thread. For example, William Barton Rodgers was not only MIT's founder, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  campus for their first year. But, maybe you're thinking about it anyway, or just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... advice for REX mirrors my CPW advice from earlier this year (and frankly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air ... had just lost a game of Pac-Man. For a fleeting second, it was all I

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... essay for the differing prompts that each college required (there were some exceptions - I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  demons on depression

  

  this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... entire undergraduate population, which includes Burton-Conner. Reasons for emailing all undergraduates include event announcements for student groups

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... application pieces and statistics for each one, I immediately felt underprepared ... vs. Yale nor application acceptance rates for any school. (Again, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... feeling guilty for. And soon, shame turned to suppression and denial. Middle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... from as far away as 2-4 hours walking for the market. Still more people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... journal my aunt got me for Christmas one year). Every time I found the same

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... , just long enough for someone of my stature (footnote: read: short) to lie ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... for each card. That means coordinating between 22 people, which wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023