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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  is about learning to take care of yourself. Well, as much as I hate to ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades ... of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... moved out; the Trader Joe's, which has its own devoted cult, is a bit ... that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• 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?

  

  again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther down the tunnel is the basement of Random Hall. Farther down still is the basement of Senior House. Farther down still is the basement of building 20

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , is that for those of you who think being deferred is a kick in the face ... step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter ... than it would have been otherwise. This is the way I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  , then my future, recited back to me. The conversation is a bit of a blur ... number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not ... of arbitrary, because the math is difficult and not intuitive to me. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  companies [annotation note="weirdly enough, the job app season is sort of ... some, perhaps the wisest of us all, [annotation note="granted, this is ... Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  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 ... when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm ... dorm is pretty uniform in culture (e.g. Maseeh). Explore as much as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  ="aligncenter" width="398"] actual picture of me psetting[/caption] The hard thing is ... some of the time, which is generally not recommended. You should have an ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that ... , although this is now a dated abbreviation). In the consistent absence of ... sacrificed...how much of your truth, for the sake of their happiness? I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  cube, so a 3U is 30 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm. People often say it's the size of ... is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our ... context of the American aerospace industry. In some ways, this is premature

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• 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

  

  it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  (the rest of them), and the material hasn’t gotten much harder. I have ... beginning of the semester. Coupled with the fact that I retain so much less ... life, the blankness of the next few years is terrifying to me. What will

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... questions of your own: you should be assessing the UROP as much as the ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split ... : The Interests Cloud This is the hub of all of my interests. Ranging from ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020