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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  - features. Keep in mind that this guide is just an introduction; I chose to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is ... member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  used the name to drive the demon out. The process is a whole story in ... name of the demon is the first step in driving it out. To have people ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... 't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the energy to go back to Baker and fell asleep in the office ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  hookups when, in my opinion, what they might really need is to take some ... now need to decide what you want. Obviously, the hard part is only if ... office's perspective, it is much easier to deal with students' concerns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... the actual country-continent relationship, there is a ton of overlap in ... or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be ... reasons--farmers don’t have much tax to give, and infrastructure is ... developing infrastructure in this area is a monumental task to begin with. All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... ’m just as deserving as anyone else to be at MIT—after all I made it in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  States, you need to go to Harvard. That's the way it is." —Robo-CJ Extended ... in the foot and complaining loudly to everybody how much it hurts but ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but ... refrigerators, so you should check on that, but living in Next House we needed to ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to be [annotation note="in Greek, eudaimonia. this is the standard ... from Act I is sufficient to tell us what needs to be done first ... good to aim at the optimum. This is in spite of the fact that I know

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... Studies In the middle of so much research, some human subjects are needed ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to art class way back in high school and honestly hadn’t given it much ... flashbacks to her childhood. Similarly, in those flashbacks, Yon Rha is in the ... try to imagine myself in Katara’s shoes, and frankly there is no way in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away ... anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• 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 ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... , and to become aware of problems which exist in the world which need ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015