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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  —find it. Being excited to learn will do far more for you in the long run ... jarring to suddenly not be the smartest kid in the class, to be on a ... you’ve gotten sleep, because your body will not be aching to shut down

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ="i’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... less analytical and much more emotional, so I will not be focusing on the ... to continue holding onto the guardrail and not plunge in as I peer over

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you ... to help the waiting suck less? No, probably not. If you ask this, we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  trifecta covered, your score would be up to some combination of fate and the ... really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... . Saturdays are spent on Roberts field, friends and family in the stands. Not to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field

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

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have ... your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  explanation for why I disliked it could be anything. Was it the technologies we ... continue to like web development in the future? It's not clear. Heck, I haven ... yes, I will like front-end in the future, people change. I don't want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  fake, and I hate that. Maybe if I keep expelling the gloom, there will be ... hope your brothers and sisters will be kind, July. I'll try to be kind to ... is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pretty epic list! What will you do to make it on the MIT 200 retrospective? ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... '16 Akamai, the content delivery network that handles 30% of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , would have thought had she been on my end of the line. I’m not sure why ... —and hope that’s enough to change minds. It won’t always be, but remember: the ... , “Why not? That’s totally understandable. It was offensive.” I think the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  with the GIRs. You should be paying enough attention to them that you ... semester. The big requirements you should be paying attention to early on are ... important and you should eat it. Where will you be eating lunch? Maseeh? The

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

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  -size rat darts up the bank—that we could not be anyone else, that because we ... . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them involves Einstein, but the other - and the first angle I'll try - is to tell

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... winning their conference, the MIT team went to the NCAA Championship

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only

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

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  extended vlog section at the end that tries to be less angsty/more "relatable ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had ... be okay with that. I have to attend to the weather and the wind and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that ... about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be ... will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008