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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... tips to figure out where you’ll fit best: Ask multiple residents about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... -ended nails that hold pieces of metal together. They are very hard to forge

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos

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

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream to make myself feel better. M.B. ‘17   I had just finished the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick 2AM lift often turn to their in-building fitness facilities instead

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018