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  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... it comes to college applications than trying to do too much of stuff

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... up there because I'd attended a couple other sections and found his to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  reason why a living space needs to have a culture associated with it. And ... in this crazy place does. Side note: this also led to a lot of ... EC alumni from this period are very much around, and have done a lot to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  a utilitarian really mattered that much to me. It’s easier said than ... gut feeling much clearer to me. I got a bit lost walking to Kendall ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  instinct? An MIT psyche? or a sign I need to get more of a life? HAHA.] ... ) Sometimes you need to impulsively hit that “Send” button.. There were many times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... "] dancing 100[/caption] The Guild owes much to its alumni. We have a long ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless ... bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named ... : "IT'S A JOKE." 9:21 PM: Realize nobody actually knows what happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... did not want to win this year. Much that we had losecomm, a whole ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021