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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... hung in my room for all of senior year, complementing the greens and ... cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , Thursday nights will often devolve in the following manner for the less ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• 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

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  screaming for you in the stands of your final NCAA volleyball game, with your ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

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

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have learned to accept in my own life of applying for grad school and ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you want to accomplish in your free time, whether it's for breaks or ... , actively try to keep in touch. If you ask others for advice, really listen to ... present. 31) There's no shame in asking for an extension on an assignment

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  ) 29. Attend Charm School - I actually was in town this year for Charm ... Before You Graduate" for her graduating class. That was right when I ... -nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City ... “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  -stitching career! For nearly 2 years  back in 2011 I spent almost every evening and ... stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... destined for Big Tech in the fall. We talked about majors. She’d opted for ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... digit are roughly located in lines, except for the tens. There are only

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... selection process that students initiate by applying for admission in the ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• 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…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... in this area), I'll guess that it's probably similar to applying for ... pretty freakin expensive). But don't send in waivers or requests for them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007