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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... bottling up was grief. Grief for all the time he's lost: time that he could ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem ... holing up at my desk for just one more hour, then another, trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week ... and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  than we'd like. But when you find that true fit, that perfect place for ... what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for other reasons—my host was already known as "the funny one" among

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  excited about Riri because she opened up the spectrum of imagination--for ... sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  properties for September leases usually go up around April/May, sometime ... campus for their first year. But, maybe you're thinking about it anyway, or just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for ... , everyone else will arrive, flooding the student center, picking up shiny new student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  students who actually end up enrolling. For the class admitted in 1984 ... the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt ... weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  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 ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

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

  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 ... different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for ... floor works for me. We're a cohesive unit, not just a bunch of people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  up for a place that was supposedly going to unveil the mystery that is ... that interested me, volunteered for causes that I liked, and kept up my ... Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I ... 's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• 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.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... entire undergraduate population, which includes Burton-Conner. Reasons for emailing all undergraduates include event announcements for student groups

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind ... fall. First a mile, then a mile and a half, then two. I signed up for an ... wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015