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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  best way to know if you'll like a class is to take it. "Shopping" is the ... -ish lecture classes, you can show up to the first day of class even if you ... to ask if you're confused without having to go all the way to office

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... 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 / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going ... seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  find that it’s actually pretty easy to feed yourself, and that the ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... ’re absolutely certain where you want to live, it’s helpful to discover different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  : If we have to nitpick, the gym doesn’t have mirrors in front of the ... . While it has several good machines, the lack of space makes it hard to do ... . It’s also located right next to the ping pong and pool tables, so

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... particular choice in the abstract, and even if we did, it shouldn't change what ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  bookmarking the tab (try to keep switching it up for fun) should work fine. If ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... you to possibly understand the molecular mechanism by which it resects

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography ... admission to MIT in the Class of 2019, despite its impressive achievements

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  to help the waiting suck less? No, probably not. If you ask this, we ... only got a 760 on the SAT I math and I don't have time to retake it and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . 7. Go to the CPW Prefrosh Welcome! K: Because it might be the only ... 're curious about Greek life, it's the best time to check out the different ... going to go to on the plane ride to CPW, then threw it out after my second

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  it was time to respond to the letter you wrote to me. I’m not eighteen ... ’re not dating her anymore. It’s strange to me now the things that you think ... ’ll start there. One: You still talk to him, sometimes, but it’s not the same

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... clothes and go over to the Green Building when I checked my email (If you ... , East Campus made that. Only bigger. See if you can spot it in the Bad

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Follow the signs back to see if you missed anything. Follow the signs ... elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it ... . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... relocated the Fleming cannon from Caltech to Cambridge in 2006. (If you like ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  journey with many prizes along the way, if you choose to accept it. If you ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... exceed your losses. If you go to MIT, it will take you apart and put you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... : When it comes to standardized tests, one of the best ways to prepare

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

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

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024