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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Where it all began. I will not describe this one much. No need to commute ... neon visitor sticker, as well as the knowledge that I no longer need to ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help ... dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , because I thought I had to. I thought I needed a pair of sperrys if anyone was ever going to respect me. I thought that I needed to respond to ... would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  need to remember that it's okay to need help navigating sometimes. I ... me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  't, and you always need to have more buffer. Always. Hence why I'm making ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  probably need to keep looking. Try new things. Keep investigating and ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be - more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  :30 Nerdy Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... school. Just tell me what I need to do, their eyes implore, and I will ... 's what you need to understand: There is nothing, literally nothing, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Kornbluth tells me. I have to agree, that does sound pretty funny. She then ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024