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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... , and luge. And I can imagine each team that submitted their own board

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... circumstances that faced me. A promise that I felt could only be realized if in ... was hungry, but I was ready. I typed in my name slowly. My brain no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... , and because I think those two go hand in hand anyway. I’ll largely put

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... deportation and legal work permits, I still live in fear that my parents will be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  or 8 “Hmm. In my personal life, I can see myself as Type 2. I think ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... (which sadly does happen, as I wrote before). They have no place in serious

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember--mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... to partake in/apply to, though when I reached out to students, there ... can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  really are. I just found out. This year, MIT's Women's Soccer team won ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the ... accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ... , "I never thought I'd be in a fraternity/sorority." K: You might think

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can finally lift my own luggage when moving out) so i signed up for a weight

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of ... I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  outfits. I headed out to eat dinner at McCormick exactly at 5pm so I can be ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that ... , so I said I'd take a look to see if I could figure out why. A number of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010