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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a ... teammates suggested I just try it out"]initial hesitancy,[/annotation] joining ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  of specialized machines to choose from, and I like working out in an ... when I work out in more secluded environments (like the Maseeh gym), it ... desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  people were fine with that? This money came out-of-pocket; I'm not making ... doc with some details that I gave to artists. This turned out to be a ... person in Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. I: The Magician / 3: Materials

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  step out of the Hunt for a few hours. And it felt so bad that I put in ... remain in memories once it's done. I personally can't empathize with this ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... I first saw the job posting, I checked out the MIT Admissions web site ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I ... Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in ... are people in Bexley too. Oh, I think it was about their “student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... about it. I was given rare access to the internet to find out more about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  and loss of energy. (Wikipedia) It was October, and I had turned in my ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  check my guests in. I can stay for the summer without applying again. I ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  that you can drop out now. But you know it’s not true. You can’t leave ... the Green Building flicker in your peripheral vision. You can’t tell if ... coming out. They flutter to the floor in a heap. The Milk arrives on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... call, or maybe even in person in the distant future. I can hear the ... is gone, in the past, and I can’t reasonably expect to return to square

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... can't be "forced out" by hours of sitting in front of Microsoft Word ... rest of the essay? do I really need it?" Can you post your essay? In

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in ... ? Maybe we can use PWM. I learned that in [annotation note="Dynamics and ... .678[/annotation], I can figure that out. With the real-life experience of M3 Design

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  break, Erin and I came in every day and pounded out code until the motors ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023