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  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... !    That's all for now! Come back later for adventures in art and science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... subject for the lab, and during a break in the procedure, asked the woman ... Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  anniversary, he designed a mouse brain model in Solidworks and printed it for me ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this ... friendships, we wouldn't be ourselves. When I was last home in NJ for ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  , think about the living arrangement in the dorms carefully. For example ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for everyone, but in the end you can't imagine yourself anywhere else ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... common area for the night. However, common areas on campus and in labs are ... beleive in Did you beleive in cotties? and so on for several hundred pages

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... and that you choose it for reasons you believe in. You’ll be here for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a ... creative community, decided to take me in. I'm excited for what's in store ... microcontrollers instead of late night baking in the chaotic Tetazoo kitchen for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... 've helped out in admissions. And I wasn't even looking for these jobs--I just ... , or some guy raised his hand in recitation and asked for a note

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  . For five years that room was home. In August it will be someone else’s. ... city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we ... corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... extensions for every assignment in that class and, apparently, taking one or ... These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... shadowruns are dot hunts. In a dot hunt, you're looking for these small ... me dancing with Draco in the Yule Ball, as everyone cheered wildly for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  about physical distance, or at least not for me. Brook E. ‘18 and I, in ... into, for example, and time to participate in the greater Boston ... and collecting used skateboards for Megabi Skate in Ethiopia, which I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... like-minded in their capacity for diverse forms of ingenuity. It was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... . 96 hours seemed vast. Not in retrospect. Take out 36 hours for sleep ... in East Campus waiting for me. In 30 days, I will fill it as a wide

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015