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• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them ... you are living somewhere far(ish) from the center of campus (like Next ... just got mine from Costco at the beginning of my freshman year and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  process. Universities are never-ending places to learn — in and out of the ... challenge the stereotypes of every school to which you’re thinking about applying. While its good to listen to the advice of others, you have to find

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  of dedicated letter of sorts to the prefrosh since I've had a lot of ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... to MIT than its rigor. MIT, yes, is one of the most difficult schools

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... 's so exciting to know that some of the people I'm talking to in these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  a 7x7x7 V-cube (better than a Rubik's Cube). Of course, the bus to NYC ... are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our ... chance to go to the opening of the special exhibit at the MIT Museum. They ...   Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... are just the basics of parsing and I already had to let so much ... While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... lot of money. I did some calculations in my head. The benefit I'd get ... to make it, and part of the reason why I wanted to go was to hang out

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  the power of them, having to write a rap about our chosen rap names ... Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, listening to the album cover to cover a couple of ... products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  makers of Guitar Hero, to Terrafugia, who are in the process of making flying cars. Many of the startups have gone on to join incubators like ... , and journalists, all eager to see the next wave of MIT startups present

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to ... and the effort to go through another four years of schooling deserves ... of maybe 15 high schools there were only 5 locations to take the SAT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  Comments from me: to bring up the point i made at the top of this post, isn ... ,568 minutes. Comments from me: if i ever need to know what the people of my ... Receiving Ends of Sirens, Architects Most listened to bands from the summer

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  about the intricacies of black holes. It turned out to be less Nobel ... that I sent out to some of the most distinguished American ... , is as close to the asymptote of world famousness as any theoretical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  grading. Because of this, I started to make grade calculators for all my ... (especially me...) is that it's okay not to try your hardest 100% of the time ... silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... all the hours it took me to master the "tricks" of the exam). Coming to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... dedicate the rest of my time to my jobs, like blogging, panels, tours, and ... what really helped was trying to grow out of the expectations I set for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley ... friends for advice. they are smart people and often know what to do ... games. groupchats. or the og groupchats, mit mailing lists. ways to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  of them so far. I'm just now starting to get to the point where I know ... 's called pancake night (because we didn't want to step on the toes of an ... time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... words-of-the-week tends to interrupt the flow of your writing, detracting ... way about your own writing? Once again, the purpose of the essays is to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016