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  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch

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

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

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

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... -night dining hall food to survive thrive. [carousel image1="107365" image2 ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For many years, many Cambridge residents had limited access to healthy, fresh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... . I’ll introduce you to some of my favorite board games. We can play ... . We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido, dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that.But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010