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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  people in the ESP team volunteered to help out, I still ended up ... as you can imagine, people in ESP like figuring out logistics. We also ... issue and now i cant deal with it everyone else in esp is out there

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... KNOW nothing I say will change that. But trust me, in four years, you ... significant. (I mean, like, not to freak you out if you don't feel that way

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• 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 ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... dropped Analysis after 3 all-nighters. In October, I sought a reasonable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now ... where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... like this: By this point, it was around 2am. I tapped out to finish ... herself. It came out beautifully. The next morning, we shoved it in a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  out. Janet: At MIT, I am majoring in Chemical Engineering with a ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  time in possibly ever, the class beforehand is running over. I hang out ... 'm on my way to hang out with a friend in the Rainbow Lounge, but first I ... projects, but I spot a group of my friends hanging out in the EC courtyard

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... thing over with. 9:05 PM: Crash on a couch in the lounge. Pull out book

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  - particularly since, with the AMCAS (med school app) coming out this Tuesday, I ... admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it they are supportive and tell me to keep doing what I can. They constantly remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though ... privilege. One strategy that I’ve found useful in my quest to maintain this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all. There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... Snively!? Well thought out answer: No, I prefer to take an observatory role

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  them as well as we can in the moment. He asked me what I would tell an ... street — can have the largest impact, should I be hit by a bus, or meet the ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016