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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  bravado the dorm likes to put on for fun when we act as a unit: you'll see ... -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... Minor on the guitar seems to connect every stage of my life, creating a ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning 6.042 Mathematics for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  to school and for what, or where to go to work and on what. In making ... on to who I thought I was. I remember letting go. I remember accepting ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you ... agreeing to be dined on. Residential Life doesn’t specify what will be doing ... . SIPB sells the juice to ESP in exchange for fresh souls, which they keep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• 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…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it ... vouch for you, but your application is your only real chance to speak to ... , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  listings and making a hypothetical schedule for yourself on WebSIS. 6 ... semester to acclimate to the pressure-cooker of MIT. For more info, read the ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you

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

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a ... out good. Hoping for the chance for dreams to be a reality. Sometimes ... of what cards you’ll be dealt, and to carry on from there. And that is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow ... general. And thanks to Noah S. '10 for showing me his circuitry and giving ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the

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

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... my bruise is for making lasting impressions on people I meet, I think I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... much less reliant on Nisha since I ask her for advice pretty often, but ... ’s great to be able to rely on someone on campus, but it’s also great that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a city that at the time I couldn’t point out on a map.  I am so guilty for ... for college. There are some socioeconomic factors to this, but I’ve come

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough, he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012