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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  youtube."]#vanlife[/annotation] videos, and I wanted to be out of Tucson but ... with being cheap, cooking dry rice and couscous with my limited supply of ... and bounds past what I’d planned. The words I wrote on the road would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  more people I knew, but didn't realize? Could there be someone like Sal ... three I didn't know, one never actually lived on floorpi. They transferred ... the spring of 2000, which would be the semester before I started living

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’ve always wanted to be - more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous ... great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I ... be yourself”, and the other half (plus the countless pseudo

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

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will be releasing decisions for transfer students next Wednesday, 12/21. Emily Sheldon, who coordinates transfer admissions for our office, will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a ... skydiving, but stop being nitpicky. IT FELT LIKE I WAS FLYING. This actually ... identity, and one to be proud of rather than ashamed of.   11. First

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... than two thousand friends, all throughout the weekend there would be high ... on Wednesday evenings, where people work on tasks that need to be done

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  , rather than MIT directly. It's almost like that with being Premed at MIT ... from. If you are considering being premed at MIT, you will definitely ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  most votes after an unspecified amount of time would be declared the ... voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  to still benefit from a class that was not easy to transfer to remote ... ) could come together to be really cool!  Amazing class! fantastic staff ... school will be watching your product presentation rather than just your

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  An update for our transfer applicants: Emily Sheldon, who coordinates transfer admissions for our office, will be emailing all applicants ... her directly. During this transfer admissions cycle we had 517

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  used to be a subject only juniors took. Course 20, today Biological Engineering, used to be Food Technology. These are all things I learned from ... accuracy for any of these things. Also, I'll be really bad when it comes to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  be countered with one titled "The Maintainers: How Bureaucrats ... for the sake of being a startup founder. Leave the water running Things ... lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ? crisis. The path was pretty clear: love physics, be ridiculously good at it ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... research and outreach at a planetarium, like Neil deGrasse Tyson. I could be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  will likely be. There are some classes that are always very popular and ... . You'll register with your advisor, and everything will be fine, even if ... should be a course 7 why isn't everyone a course 7"]10.548/HST.525: Tumor

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid ... gravity." Many of my classmates said they dreamed of being astronauts, or of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  these two statements. I will never be a junior again. I will never be a ... major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... born. Maybe this will help someone, or maybe it will be totally ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015