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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• 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 university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  didn’t manifest any more than just a weird feeling swooshing around, and ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... from me, smiling and holding up a book she had written. While this was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9 ... twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... off with something smaller and lighter. Such as a large steel fork ... telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... confusion as a feeling that comes in many different flavors. Some are sweet ... out of my comfort zone. Navigating unknown territory – be it a school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• 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. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good ... . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with ... ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016