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

  

  -gravity environment. MIT expects and forces you to work and *be* at so much of a higher ... in the foot and complaining loudly to everybody how much it hurts but ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT

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

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing ... much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after

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

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

  

  To..., ❤️ & ☮️, and Does Any Kid Still Do This Anymore? I passed ... again decided to stay for the night—I was having too much fun here, and I ... two hundred puzzles; the number's closer to 170. And our team doesn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’s policy-making process, creating projects to address student needs, and ... departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... youtube."]#vanlife[/annotation] videos, and I wanted to be out of Tucson but ... driving around a quiet neighborhood, taking random twists and turns to make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  shown up yet. To kill time, I walked across the dam once again and ... "]length[/annotation] and [annotation note="who is it used by, and where does it take you ... these many bridges, and decided that the best way to show that is through

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  with the application process guys - don't forget to breathe once and a ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... shifts on the ambulance, and long hot showers trying to scrub off that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... hopes that you find something to relate to (and perhaps help you ... post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  undergraduate population to share their ideas and passions more quickly and ... engineering angle to them, and so the dorms were built with the residents ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt ... few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... many of you have poured so much of yourselves, your time, and your energy ... and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time

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

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and enough wind to annihilate my umbrella and propel the rain through my jacket

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto ... . I’ll try and make time to respond as much as possible, because ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  science fiction as much as I do. The chocolate and hot glue E. coli ... Minor on the guitar seems to connect every stage of my life, creating a ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... about you? Does each part contribute to the bigger picture of you that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  opportunities, and to seek out serendipity in as much as you can. You can ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011