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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a ... living off-campus, and something you could definitely set up in a dorm or ... course's lounge. And remember, snap-sealed or screw-lid Tupperware is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or ... is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... wrong, or what to do about it, and that scared me. I was at a complete ... calling my mother, and talking to her about feeling stressed, or sad

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  whole picture. The way that students identify or categorize majors and ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... are small majors, and a lot of other majors are thought of as big or

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there ... order from top to bottom, or you can stick to a single category and only ... Mathematics or Chemistry from 9 to 10:30 AM, and then Military Tactics until

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your worthiness and your potential or our admiration for your goodness and your ... – belie the complex discussions and emotions behind our decisions. The

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... from our (in?)famous group chat. Seeing how excited and ambitious they were made me proud of all our communities and the future of them. (I

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  heartwarming sort was unbelievable. I called my parents and more or less ranted ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... -principal while he logged onto Penn’s website. Drums banged in my chest and throat

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we ... exploring our identities and our sexualities and our fashion sensibilities and ... articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger, I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an ... offending hardcore geneticists out there, or if I breezed over some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... sensitive. Make a face when a student gives a wrong answer, and he or she may ... multiply or square. Because of that, they get the operations mixed up, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . It's a unique opportunity to put our engineering skills to the test and ... . However, our team of Mechanical Engineers and I had the opportunity to ... something for our client. We met with our client a couple times to try and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , and after a few days, I get an interview. A day or two after that, I get ... 's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted ... ways that we can hold events that show off our dorm and our culture

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  from the chapter’s website or other social media platforms and initiate ... there were people she grew up with or became close to, people grow and ... to either visit her and invite her to different cities on the coast or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23

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

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  was great. It is not always possible, as our alumni do work and have ... the local area ECs and me. It was a good way for me to talk with our ... and staff there were gracious hosts for our NYC area admissions

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... the other side of the beaver (we flip our brass rats around after

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016