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  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... admissions decision season is nearing, here's a bonus link to a page on the ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... forward to right now is the Whirlwind of Metamorphosis book launch. It ... launch ceremony, in which the book is presented to an audience and sales

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap ... normal class is worth 12 units at MIT, which indicates that the class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... Campus (it was love at first sight, and the EC community is by far the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... something no one else can hear so everyone is uncomfortable. 3DS - The ... done? Perfect fit. And the feeling of StreetPass-ing someone is just so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  TypeScript is now my favorite programming language. What happened? The short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... strips are taken from the webcomic minus; this is strip 8.[/caption] After

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... is the way of things. and i feel joy, and sentimental, and nostalgia ... all the mailing lists you want to stay on because you know mit is going

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  fact is one of the main factors in about 90% of the things I listed in my ... your life. So to a lot of people the n word is just another word because ... of this, the African and African American community is an amazing place

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code. Thank god. The school building is small, so we were able to find our

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... barbeque and prizes for billiards and is mixing ice cream for the LN2 events ... the process. No experience necessary, everyone is welcome—just BYO

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  , there's so many cool -- FROSH: isn't that the ...you know ... clothing ... mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live ... and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... . (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were ... for you, is also the thing that's holding you back from the life you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s about. I’ll tell you what I hope this post is about. It’s about the frightening rollercoaster that the college application is. This process is ... held me high when joy arrived. Time with the people we love is a truly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  is represented in all capital letters in English translations of the Bible. This is why some Bible verses are like And then the LORD said to ... breakthroughs that I've had is understanding that [annotation note="The real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• 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 ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the

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

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning ... Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... first things people ask me is where I'm from. Is it the Philippines, where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023