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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  overall experience much more enjoyable. Second, it is a good way to start ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... ="I am not trying to wander into a philosophical discussion here. the point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... I had a lot to contemplate about the newer stories I want to write

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  starting a weekly film club, and of course, there’s so much Facebook to keep ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• 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 ... and making cool friends through cool friends at MIT. To give you a ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... displays everywhere I looked. As a New Yorker, I have some desire to avoid ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... , there’s a perfectly flat surface from the hatchback to the front seat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening ... Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... when Robin visited his fraternity and failed to identify him as a robot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... just wanted to let you know that you can have a lot of fun and still get

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  I finally applied to MIT, I told myself not to expect too much since I ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• 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?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... later today. 11:05-11:55 -- 21A.100 (intro to anthropology) lecture ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016