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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for

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

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

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can ... directly, and sending it to us so we can keep track. I don't remember much ... here? Do I deserve to be here? How does this reflect on me as a person

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus ... pronunciations are the least of your worries right now. Another can of lingual

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  mechanical, and that was fun, and I can learn more about motors and stuff ... does work for me.  I also want to learn more EE and CS now! And I have 1 ... or so was an ideation stage. I proposed several things, but the most

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  you and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, "what can I learn ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... since each floor of BC has such vastly different culture...I can't imagine ... My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  opportunities to do this. I tell myself, I can hang out with people tomorrow, or ... -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  genuinely can’t imagine living anywhere else.  My roommates. I’ve lived with ... Boston. I can see – and hear – Fenway Park from my window. Cafe 472, an MIT ... hold on tight. I can’t wait to see so many new faces on campus this year

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need ... . Something like "I'll take one science GIR per semester" and "I'll finish my PE ... degree charts.) You can still graduate with any major even if you don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere. When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  what you choose to do, it seems like you can’t go wrong.” I blinked ... , we can make it a purse instead!” *** Now I'll be off to enjoy my last ... likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at ... 't immediately say yes, but rather asked if I can have time to think about it ... outfits. I headed out to eat dinner at McCormick exactly at 5pm so I can be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don ... easily with, "Don't worry! I can always help and I'm sure you're not bad at ... , but you can find them all here: Weather I've written about this design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self-actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really like this analogy, because I feel like it also mirrors the way

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18 ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [annotation note="oof again I can't really specify what this was because of the ... can healthily manage in a semester, but I felt so fulfilled doing ... describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024