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  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  need to invest yourself in something that probably won’t work out, and if ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  because I feel it's something you might need to hear. I'm also sharing this with you because tonight I need to hear it for myself. You see, earlier ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... will usually be four years. you have so much to do afterwards. regardless ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... :30am and 3am. While not always effective, when I need to do something, I ... and my target completion time of 12pm (when I needed to leave for the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester ... definitely no longer wanting to explore as much. So I got closer to some. But

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  to the 6.036 LA "I have to go -- I need to go staff 031." And she ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  transportation. Once I moved to Boston I went to Wheelworks - the best bike shop ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  performed here once! And listened to many amazing performers. I still remember ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... much work I had. Hearing the phrase "I'm six-one" began to mean ... absolutely worth the time. It took me until 5:37 AM to finish 18.02, much

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  really ever sent one of their students off to MIT, much less someone who ... test once. I cried about it and then I went to La Verdes and bought a ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  included) need oxygen, and you can’t find much oxygen as you progress lower ... region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... Infinite or Gala needed graphics made, I kind of just scrambled to put ... sabine![/caption] Much like the plotter project, I also meant to write an

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025