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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is one thing. But displaying my intellectual incompetence to them in real

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... works! I hope in the future, once our alarm clock is finished, to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those ... home. You need to be physically present to build meaningful relationships ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... than I have encountered at MIT. Basically what I want to say is that ... have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... . Yet another way to get involved in governance at MIT is through Dorm

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  is incredibly valuable, AudreyRose wanted to take part in the more fun ... ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but ... forward is ingrained in him. Nikayah has always wanted to help the community

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to ... still love writing more than pretty much anything else, I don’t want to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  where you go to college is ultimately not the most important thing in your ... try to do it with friends—food in college is a social experience. In ... year or semester to graduate. It is much better than realizing you hate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... many returners this time that the staff members need to be shunted off to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... 's what you need to understand: There is nothing, literally nothing, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... , but because in their worlds, they never have to practice that ability ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• 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.

  

  decomposition is equal to the number of pearls we place on that edge in the other ... original polyhedron, and each other piece of ∑'1 is congruent to a piece in ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... stuff we did to have fun lock in this semester. [carousel image1 ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024