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

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to ... is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , I chose to maximize bonding activities especially helpful for me

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... too loud to be turned on during the work day, so I mostly used a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... . She knew there was an AKA on campus, so she reached out to her asking for her perspective. Nikayah learned that MIT used to have a history of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• 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?!

  

  to work on making up for lost time. Even before the ’93 dorm ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  . I'm certainly not trying to pawn off my indecision entirely on our ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... formal, aka "Floormal", on the last day of classes, for which we all became

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• 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 ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014