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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years ... 't think I changed or grew much in that year, compared to my years at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  has a lot of memorabilia that we needed to figure out how to store ... being that they need to form communities. That would be a complete ... form, and to many students is much more important than things like AC, a

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

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  and the other the minimum amount of classes we need to finsih a CMS ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , and to add to that, I needed a specific amount of space between the tab ... to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 Videos Program. That last one might sound a little familiar to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  moment touched her so much that it solidified her decision to become a ... after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You ... too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of ... other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  't need a laundry bag or anything to lug stuff down to the laundry room. You ... I didn't think I'd have that much time to shop once I got there, which ... , because the beds aren't fantastic, and you really need to make the most of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... telescopes and camping equipment like thermoses, we wanted to create a camera ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• 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

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... , and a folder with random files I needed to cart from one place to ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a

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

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... about ten percent of freshmen change their minds; they have a chance to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008