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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... the sort of innovative person that really does make a difference. Seeing ... ’m looking forward to the smell of delicious baked goods). I’m riding my bike

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  and discover that the real world does not demand every last drop of your ... of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from ... [/caption] The firehose analogy captured the imagination of the MIT community

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

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

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  few comments from members of SHASS. Before the area was hacked, the ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  own goals. Good luck! At the end of the day, things will happen, and ... real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... ", referring to hookup culture or the general idea of casual relationships

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  biology does help a bit, as in the case of removing small bones from a whole ... of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  across the street. Life is good. It’s what you make of it. You can be ... my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... acrylic paint and the bottom half is melted crayons. Grant F. ‘16 One of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... life even if one does fail out of school (and your interests are academic ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... Facebook statuses to the irritatingly unpredictable nature of MIT printers

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... undergrad [Janet] if she had seen Silence of the Lambs, which came out in 1991

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  burnt coffee spilled on the stove. The end of a good science fiction story ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016