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  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... content. I'm flattered but, to be clear, the best thing I ever did at MIT ... , I realized that the thousands of entries would now need to be retagged

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

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  as the semesters pass. Try not to end up with many more than 1 or 2 if ... . Especially if you’re a fast walker: when walking to class, don’t take the ... obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to get to meet all of the incoming freshmen if you choose to visit Cru ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... 't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... enough to be used as a bouldering wall, and the routesetters used the ... and not interesting enough to be more than a parenthetical at the end of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to the cost of housing on campus. But, if you're smart, you can find ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be ... and your living experience. If you're looking to be around lots of

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

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... 't have time to interview more people (that could be an entire thesis

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  version of you that you can be. And if that place isn't the place for you ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  shifts to “Why Can’t We Be Friends.” The action calms and the two sides ... busy and wistfully looking around. I wonder if it would be weird to ... a place where it happened and the place I wanted to be (and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  decades of murals would be whitewashed. The TT worked with students to ... documented their murals accordingly. Even so, we won't be able to paint on the ... panels for us to paint on, but...it won't be the same. Preserving culture

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... personal record - being broken. So I guess while it's fair to consider the ... . That means defying the sinking feeling you're bound to feel from being in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model ... UROPS are the most common as they tend to be more accessible, known about ... students who call out on behalf of the school to speak with alumni about

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

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... the Harry Potter films to confuse your friends and relatives! If they ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  elevation that the room had to be oxygenated; I asked X-ray telescopes in low ... can and should be fun and rewarding.   6. To learn the difference ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024