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

  

  ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  2025s, here is some advice: you will survive this. You will have ... months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little ... (GIRs) are one exception to this. personally, I think there is still

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and ... MIT intending to be premed. My father is an urologist, and when I was ... story :p) II. This is how my last cycle turned out, from June 22, 2010

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

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... other. It is, properly constituted, an environment which fosters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the ... moon 67 years before we did. It is considered the first science fiction ... is the moon rocket from Objectif Lune (Destination Moon), the sixteenth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... someone else's life at MIT: 6.131 Lab. 6.131 Lab, or Power Electronics is ... seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... ; course 6 (EECS) is big and course 17 (political science) is small. Most people know what course 2 is (mechanical engineering), but most people don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• 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…

  

  about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in ... them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated ... "meritorious" students who lack it. This is simply wrong. It is also subtly ... way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  say the least. The reality is that the college application process is ... three) of summer job hunt cycles, *accepting* negative decisions is easier ... tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku ... the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... humanities field is CMS, or Comparative Media Studies (which is a really broad ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a ... ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff ... artistic, so having painted a mural is a very big deal for me. :) James H

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015