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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  ’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the ... old and cranky to have a comment on any of these things but numerology ... I am her to the max. But he definitely sees a different side of me and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  . I’ve been fortunate to travel to over 35 cities and 20 states on ... for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... , and I drink it religiously.) 9:20-9:30 -- Bike across campus from W61 to ... biosynthesis, effects, and metabolism of melatonin. 10:56-11:03 -- Run to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... window seat next to two sleeping men and is suffering from that giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• 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 ... next best thing to bringing him, and brought Roary instead. Photo

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

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... is generally because they want to come to MIT, and they want me to tell

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• 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 ... numbers to the west of that line are odd, and the building numbers to the ... order from west to east. Finally, the Building 50s and Building 60s are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay alive; sometimes we forget to eat, and sometimes we forget to sleep. we ... –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it. Exit the elevator and grumble when you see the stairwell you always take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  through extensive research, campus visits and conversations. I don't have to ... want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and ... will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... , definitely. MIT students like to both "work hard and play hard", and there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some ... want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry ... and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... 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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014