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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  . Ask anyone who's lived in the Philippines for several years; they ... other hand, after having lived in Cambridge for two years, the only named ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  one-weekend program in March, but it's for middle schoolers instead ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... '22, were teaching How to Stay Awake in a Classical Music Concert. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... traded in my iPad carcass for a smaller, more lightweight version (12 ... in May. I love a good poster, but it’s cool to make graphics for more

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... authority figure who I had very little respect for in the first place was ... for the same competition. And I'm lucky we did pretty well in that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra ... , this was a waste of precious learning time, so I stepped in for the class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... clothes in the middle washer; and requests for empty gallon jugs, superglue ... days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I ... people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  studied harder for a test than you ever have in your life, maybe, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to ... ) there are so many flaws in this haiku I am trying to purify my blood for ... things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  ; I take issue with the "WHY don't they WANT me?" line of thought for ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1504"] I intend to set the record for "most complicated graph in an ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta ... effect.']master's degree[/annotation] in urban planning. Now, he works for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  brass rat as little nods to everyday MIT apparel. As for the symbols in ... corresponding to the fields of study in EAPS: the ocean for earth, wind and clouds ... 're interested in printing these, hit me up and we can talk about it. For me, this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd ... furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  person you will meet at MIT (and for that matter in your life!) knows ... . If you wait for every selfie in front of the admissions door, you ... every once in a while. Get a foam pad for your mattress. It makes a world

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... , for the people in the back: This applies to undergrad admissions, too ... belt from working in my hometown lab for several years helped). It’s not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  split into groups of three, and for an entire week, we were in charge of ... of the academic year--for freshmen to participate in. I spent virtually ... often locked in my room, I was dealing with personal issues, and my sleep

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  the cookies. I confided in her that for the first time in my life, I ... and I sat down in my room and talked for the next three hours. He made ... , and sadness is simply amazing and worth living for. I am valued in this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015