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  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dismiss quickly. 5. You have freedom to choose your classes It is so cool ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... -back, is tiring. But each of the interviews felt good, in their own ways

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you're

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... had to pack up way before I did. So it was weird, with half of the room ... as the week went by. The afternoon he left, we sat and talked to each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  getting me to this place. But the reality is that I could not have done it ... . The GRE is pretty formulaic, so it’s all about getting used to the kinds ... tests), so just learn how to solve them the quick way. Do a few practice

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to ... , it is a reinforcement of the way they see themselves. Certainly major ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... enthusiasm is cool, and college is a great time to explore your identity ... the company of others later. 20) Social media is a strange space to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... to your room to cry last semester and said the same thing to you? You ... balloons all along the infinite corridor as a way to express solidarity with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I ... rectilnear grid is thanks to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. One quirk of the ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  these many bridges, and decided that the best way to show that is through ... crosses the river. The museum (which MIT students get free admission to!) is ... they obscure the view of water from that side. To your left is Route 28

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... amused. “Yes, um, this is the wrong way.” He helped with the bags, led me to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  I’m looking at the bright side of things, which is that I get to spend ... is one of the best places in the world to make connections and become ... saying from the trail: hike your own hike. There are all sorts of ways to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• 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?

  

  , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... back to your cart. The aisle is a straight line. There is a book in your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  for, and the fact that you end up closer to your goal is, at least for ... . Maybe the simplest way is to close the feedback loop between production ... !”']prize[/annotation] for winning the Mystery Hunt is getting to write the next one. It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to yours; your research is standing on the backs of giants ... some context in the area you're researching, what you're going to be investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the ... the student body, the decision is made to outfit each room with an ... west and play to the east. After classes, you could head back to your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011