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  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 / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... week to build and was up for another week after that, and the students ... for lab. People run up and down the wall opposite from where the baby

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• 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

  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

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on"]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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