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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... course - there is no substitute to visiting MIT and checking out the ... people competing to see who stayed up the longest (though whoever wins is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... ; double checked if snow is cold (it is)   made cake pops for my ... out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  learned how painful it is to be sleep deprived for weeks on end; how sad it is to stay indoors nearly all the time; how lonely it is to barely see ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  doing it — “just be more rational”. but it is human for us to value these kinds of things, and it is better for us to be aware of them, rather than ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  universe as we try to wrap our tiny minds around it. Our world is messed up ... you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... yourself when I was deciding. Part of its thesis is that we are changed by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the ... department of science". It still strikes me how recent biology is compared to ... hours of exercise add up to 485. It's unclear whether this is supposed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  "kapow!", as some have apparently taken to start calling it) is ... while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... probably not that useful, not really. What is useful is being able to swap

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• 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 go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City ... missing out on the friend groups forming because it was taking me longer to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  think about my future and what I want to do with it. My biggest fear is ... ’ve beat it (and to some extent, I don’t think I ever will), I’ve learned ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . It’s less my decision than it is the Institute's. I chose to leave, and ... Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most ... best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... . No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more ... seen, really seen. There is no shame in allowing yourself to be seen, in

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... know it as "the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried." Granted that Jim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... three essays this term that it was highly susceptible to procrastination ... Engineering Problem Solving -- essentially Intro to Java) -- and it wasn't even

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021